Example sentences of "[verb] it for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 2 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 3 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 4 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 5 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 6 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 7 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 8 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 9 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 10 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 11 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 12 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
| 13 | O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night . |
| 14 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 15 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 16 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 17 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 18 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 19 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 20 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 21 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 22 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 24 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 25 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 26 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 27 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 28 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 30 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |