Example sentences of "it [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you want to heat the bedrooms up you ca n't , unless you only have it on for a bit you know . |
| 2 | Leave it on for a year you 'll get a bill . |
| 3 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 4 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 5 | He saw it only for a second . |
| 6 | And anyhow , it was still deception , be it only for a minute . |
| 7 | Give it a chance to warm up , we need n't put it in for a bit . |
| 8 | So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed . |
| 9 | Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake . |
| 10 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 11 | It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while . |
| 12 | There is nothing whatever to do about it , except , possibly , to put it down for a time . |
| 13 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 14 | He waved out the match , gazed at it thoughtfully for a moment , dropped it into the ashtray and then looked at Herr Nordern . |
| 15 | He placed the receiver down , stared at it thoughtfully for a moment , then turned back into the room , intending to join the Hatches in the garden . |
| 16 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 17 | ‘ I bought it just for a laugh . ’ |
| 18 | somebody comes to look at it just for a view I mean , I say , I , I 'm quite happy coming like I said th if you motion behind there , make the bar presentable we 'll fill it out with stock then that 'll look better |
| 19 | This ill-informed comment might be laughed off were it not for a threat , prominently reported in the national press , that the Moi University medical students might not be eligible for full registration upon qualification because of their ‘ sub-standard ’ education . |
| 20 | This unusual system would give the scallop superb eyesight , were it not for a design fault . |
| 21 | He reached for the Caithness paperweight on his desk and fiddled with it absently for a moment . |
| 22 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 23 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
| 24 | Marty McCann breathed a sigh of relief as he watched his intended back pass rebound off the post for the keeper to scramble it away for a corner . |
| 25 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 26 | We 've taken it over for a week or so . |
| 27 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 28 | Now I find if you put it aside for an hour or two and do something else you can already come to it fresh . |
| 29 | it was , it was particularly , it , it totally for a girl |
| 30 | Unless we can turn it off for a bit . |