Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 2 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 5 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 6 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 7 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 8 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 13 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 14 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 21 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 22 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 23 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 24 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 25 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |