Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 2 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 3 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 4 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 5 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 6 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 7 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 8 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 9 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 10 | The playing of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Peter Eötrös , who had given the work several times before this 1991 Prom performance , seems immensely confident and assured , all the complexities mastered ; and the recording quality is so good ( and the audience so quiet ) I would have taken it for a ‘ state-of-theart ’ studio job . |
| 11 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 12 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 13 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 14 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 15 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 16 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 17 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 18 | And I said is my caravan being cleaned weekly as people go out if they 've got it for a fortnight fortnightly . |
| 19 | Pic oh I 've got it for a week and if I get successful in doing so many tapes then I get twenty pound , twenty five pound v voucher to spend |
| 20 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 21 | You 've had it for a few years too . |
| 22 | I 've had it for a week . |
| 23 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 24 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 25 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 26 | I 've swapped it for a couple of weeks . |
| 27 | I 've wanted it for a very long time , and it will happen , I promise , but not now , not yet . ’ |
| 28 | I 've rented it for a fortnight . |
| 29 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |
| 30 | and erm she 's had it for a couple of days but we thought she was getting over it this morning . |