Example sentences of "it for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then he knew he would n't , because he would be doing it for just that reason even if he really preferred tea with lemon . |
| 2 | If you practise it for just ten minutes each day , you will soon begin to notice the difference : |
| 3 | They were speculators , who hoped to sell it for even more than the showroom price even though it meant tying up a £50,000 deposit for four years . |
| 4 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 5 | Since our son found maths difficult he had , quite understandably , decided that it was easier to do none at all — and had got away with it for over six weeks . |
| 6 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 7 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 8 | They did not bother to rid the cellar of its bolted-down bed or the length of chain that had tethered Simon to it for over three weeks . |
| 9 | I 've been on it for over three years and I 'm quite concerned about some of the things I 've heard tonight and I 'm going to make an appointment |
| 10 | After all , people have contributed to these pensions during their working lives and in order to qualify for a full pension , you need to have paid into it for over forty years . |
| 11 | want it for somewhere different from Marks and Spencers . |
| 12 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 13 | One of his discoveries was originally thought by some to be wrong as no one was able to replicate it for nearly two years ; however , Fleischmann was eventually proved to be correct . |
| 14 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 15 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 16 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 17 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 18 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 19 | I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute . |
| 20 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 21 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 22 | You 've been saying it for so long . |
| 23 | If you leave it for so long though |
| 24 | He has it for so long . |
| 25 | You ran it for so long and then |
| 26 | I think it 's because I have n't done it for so long |
| 27 | I 've done it before it 's just I have n't done it for so long ! |
| 28 | ‘ I considered it for perhaps ten seconds . ’ |
| 29 | In 1753 the estate again passed by marriage , this time to the Devonshire family , who held it for almost 100 years . |
| 30 | It should be remembered that Hadley Wood tunnel and the East Coast main line was a favourite haunt of the Deltics that used it for almost all of their working life , so it is not surprising that one of their number should reappear on its familiar route . |