Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 2 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 3 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 4 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 5 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 6 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 7 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 8 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 9 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 10 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 11 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 12 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 13 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 14 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 15 | The paper owner , the local council , had bought it for eventual use as a road , but had no immediate use for it . |
| 16 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 17 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 18 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 19 | The Romanians had played it for all it was worth . |
| 20 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 21 | Worldwide governments had blown it for different reasons . |
| 22 | Given the hypothetical choice — none had faced it for real — three dog owners at City Road said it was easy . |