Example sentences of "he [verb] it for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 2 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 3 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 4 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 5 | He studied it for a while , whistled and rang Fulham . |
| 6 | Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again . |
| 7 | He shook it for a while until it gurgled and moved its head weakly . |
| 8 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 9 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |
| 10 | He watched it for a moment , but it stayed off . |
| 11 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 12 | He knew it for a certainty . |
| 13 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 14 | When the Lord made Sunday he meant it for a day of rest , a day of peace and quiet after the turmoil of the working week . |
| 15 | He kept it for a talisman , taking it with him in his pocket when he married Maria Filippa , and on the boat when they crossed the ocean to New York . |
| 16 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 17 | He did it for a laugh . ’ |
| 18 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 19 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 20 | Ronni felt her blood leap and burn within her as he held it for a moment , squeezing gently , then , almost as though the gesture was an afterthought , allowing his thumb to graze lightly against the burning peak . |
| 21 | In Peart , the more authoritative case , the accused received a car from the victim when he had told him he wanted it for a certain journey . |