Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 2 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 3 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 4 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 5 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 8 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 11 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 14 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 15 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 16 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 17 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 18 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 19 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 20 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 21 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 22 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 23 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 24 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 25 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 26 | You 've had it for a few years too . |
| 27 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 28 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 29 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 30 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |