Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 8 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 9 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 13 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Has anybody read it for the first time for this course ? |