Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 2 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 3 | She took the package and it lay for a moment in her lap while she stared down at it . |
| 4 | Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence . |
| 5 | Then , as we saw in the previous chapter , it was introduced in Scotland in 1989 and in England and Wales in 1990 , but it lasted for a very short period . |
| 6 | But it lasted for a good seven or eight years after the war was finished . |
| 7 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |