Example sentences of "it [vb -s] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
| 2 | My records nee go it it plays for a bit , then it goes brurgh ! |
| 3 | It equips for battle |
| 4 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 5 | When that forest goes , it goes for good , and it 's going fast . |
| 6 | If the sergeant got there before you and did n't find you , he would tap with his signalling stick and it goes for miles in the middle of the night — give him a little tinkle , and you walk towards one another . |
| 7 | Gallons of intoxicating percussion guided rhythms fuel ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ like a train rampaging along an empty track as it goes for an energetic jog in the shadows , pacing along a tireless circuit . |
| 8 | Standalone it goes for $1,000 and $1,300 respectively . |
| 9 | The DOS version is even cheaper — it goes for a very reasonable £59 . |
| 10 | When you 're up against your Fortune , whether it goes for or against you . ’ |
| 11 | I personally and I 'm sure it goes for many here , have spent a long time in the private rented sector and if the opportunity existed to get into council housing we would have taken it . |
| 12 | wait a minute , we 'll leave that in there we 'll let it go out , see how it goes for a couple of months , Glen will know where we can use any money for that anyway for a couple of months |
| 13 | and it goes for ever and ever |
| 14 | Without fail I walk in the house and it goes for me ankles . |
| 15 | Since the death of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936 , the company has been wholly owned by the Wellcome Trust , a registered charity which distributes all profits it receives for the support of medical and allied research in universities and hospitals throughout the world . |
| 16 | Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 17 | And Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick , which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 18 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 19 | It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone . |
| 20 | Under fire from referees for his comments as a defence witness at Salisbury Crown Court last week , Kelly retorted : ‘ When someone is facing a prison sentence and all the immediate trauma that it involves for his family , I believe the sensitivities of referees should come second rather than first . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It thinks for itself . |
| 22 | This , of course , is a popular subject : it seems particularly attractive to the poet-turned-novelist because of the scope it offers for the tremulously sensitive probing of feelings . |
| 23 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
| 24 | Not least important is the constructive alternative it offers for alienated youth . |
| 25 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 26 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 27 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 28 | This is an extremely important result , both because of its policy implications which we shall consider later in this chapter and because of the scope it offers for testing the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 29 | The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward . |
| 30 | Our general topic of discussion is perceptual consciousness and the problem that it constitutes for physicalism . |