Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 2 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 3 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 4 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 5 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 6 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 7 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 8 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 9 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 11 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 12 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 13 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 14 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 15 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 16 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 17 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 18 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 19 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 20 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 21 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 22 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 23 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 24 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 25 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 26 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 27 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 28 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 29 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 30 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |