Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 2 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 3 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 4 | Most of the federally owned land in the area is run by BLM , which has apportioned it for extensive commercial mining and ranching as well as for recreational use . |
| 5 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 6 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 7 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 10 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 11 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 12 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 13 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 14 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 15 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 16 | Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material . |
| 17 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 18 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 19 | Fry felt that he might have left it for good after his latest week of unemployment . |
| 20 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 23 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 24 | So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this . |
| 25 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 30 | 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 . |