Example sentences of "[verb] it for [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 4 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 5 | I can do it for one minute twenty seconds . |
| 6 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 7 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 8 | I have n't seen it for sixty year . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't believe it for one minute , personally , but this is the , this is the theory , and I 'll explain why I do n't believe it , later . |
| 10 | Scrap it for one day . |
| 11 | I 've got it , I can keep it for two week . |
| 12 | I can , you , I can keep it for two week till Johnny wants it again , not this Wedn not this Wednesday , the following Wednesday . |
| 13 | They can ship it , National Power can ship it half way across the world and get it for eighteen pound a ton . |
| 14 | Then they want you to run it for two year , have a mobile home , and if you could prove it 's viable after two years , then there would be a reminder and we 'll consider giving you permission for a house , otherwise , everybody could just put up one tun poly tunnel in half an acre and get a house , could n't they ? |
| 15 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 16 | I said er or he said we could have it for twenty pound a month and we said |
| 17 | ‘ Course he will , ’ Joe snapped , ‘ bin doin it for twenty year . |
| 18 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
| 19 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 20 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |
| 21 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 22 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 23 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 24 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 25 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 26 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 27 | Trod it for thirty year , |
| 28 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |