Example sentences of "it for [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er he 'd maybe say yes and he 'd get it for fifteen you know . |
| 2 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 3 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 4 | The Romanians had played it for all it was worth . |
| 5 | She 's milking it for all it 's worth . |
| 6 | I think it was a very good school for its time , and I am deeply indebted to it for all I learned , but it was , I consider now , very strict . |
| 7 | And they probably have cameras on it for all I know . |
| 8 | We would prefer to go back but if we close it for good it would be far better to have no Timex in Dundee than a Timex with scab labour earning scab wages and working under scab conditions . ’ |
| 9 | I was pleased with W F Owtram 's opening two lines : ‘ Was it for this I quitted Rhondda , /In my dreams at large to wander … |
| 10 | A bottle will keep for a couple of hours once out of the fridge , but if you need to keep it for longer you should store it in an insulated cool-bag until it 's needed . |
| 11 | Originally cost twenty pounds and we could get it for ten it 's er |