Example sentences of "[vb past] it for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 2 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 3 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 4 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 5 | Paxton 's SRI trials ( Paxton 1977 ) found that island-driving improved performance for shorter sentences but decreased it for longer ones . |
| 6 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 7 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 8 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 9 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 10 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 11 | The stability of the building was also queried and Mr. Fair ‘ absolutely guaranteed it for 200 years ! ’ |
| 12 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 13 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 14 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 15 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 16 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 17 | I watched it for several minutes , and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and the rest were going up and down . |
| 18 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 19 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |
| 20 | We took it for forensic tests . ’ |
| 21 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
| 22 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 23 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 24 | I got it for six months , te |
| 25 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 26 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 27 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
| 28 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 29 | I mean , I did it for four months and then I could n't do any more , I just think I mean , I know Amanda and Claire were a lot younger then and I think it 's difficult when they are they 're younger . |
| 30 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |