Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 2 | But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture . |
| 3 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 4 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 5 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 6 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 7 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 8 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
| 9 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 10 | Mr. Harrison relies on it for the statement in the judgment of Lord Denman C.J. , at p. 683 : ‘ The debtee 's discharge of one joint and several debtor is a discharge of all . ’ |
| 11 | * Get into the habit of standing back from your essay so that you can comment on it for the benefit of your reader ( see p. 104 ) . |
| 12 | The County Council as a whole , is now operating and using this new logo amber conditions , that go with it for the employment of the disabled . |
| 13 | If the description of integrated circuits given earlier is now considered , it can be seen that the requirements are met ; there are two or more layers ( usually three ) , one layer is made of a semiconducting material and a pattern is fixed upon it for the purpose of performing an electronic function . |
| 14 | What would she write in it for the week in which she visited the fire station ? |
| 15 | She hoped it had n't been anything serious but if it was n't then he ought not to have brooded over it for the rest of the day . |
| 16 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |
| 17 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |