Example sentences of "it [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away . |
| 2 | He lifted it , as if he were about to kiss it , laid it for an instant against his cheek , then restored it , still captive , to his knee . |
| 3 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 4 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 5 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 6 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 7 | ‘ I did it for an introduction before the films came out in Europe , ’ he says . |
| 8 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
| 9 | The Department of Transportation in Maryland , for example , used it for an interactive touch-screen system providing tourists with video , textual , graphical and audio information about the city and its transport network . |
| 10 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 11 | Leave it for an hour , until the bulk of the whey has drained off , and transfer the curd , still in its cloth , to the mould . |
| 12 | To reduce the magnification soak up some of the water drop by gently touching a piece of paper tissue or blotting paper against it for an instant . |
| 13 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 14 | He watched it for an hour , and it flickered once |
| 15 | It can not be partly certain because the tenant can determine it at any time and partly uncertain because the landlord can not determine it for an uncertain period . |
| 16 | All three of them stared at it for an instant . |
| 17 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 18 | Do you think you can hold it for an hour ? ’ |
| 19 | She drew a breath as he gazed at it for an instant , watching its slow movements , the gentle opening of its tiny mouth as if expressing surprise . |
| 20 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 21 | Do n't wan na wan na swop it for an Astra do you ? |
| 22 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 23 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 24 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 25 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 26 | otherwise we leave it for an evening just have general , I mean if we can she wants us to do the whole twenty , she said she 'd be delighted , there was Yorkshire Television on her car keys |
| 27 | You can use it for an interview . |
| 28 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |
| 29 | He will touch everyone on the raw ’ — while the young would receive it as an account of what they were up to . |
| 30 | He was drawn to the work of IPTA ( Indian People 's Theatre Association ) , a cultural wing of the Communist Party of India , and worked with it as an actor — playwright — director till 1954 . |