Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 2 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 3 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 4 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 5 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 6 | It is quite usual to seek translation in tables of regnal years such as those printed in the more common reference books without , perhaps , recognising the historical significance of the system or the traps which lie within it for the unwary . |
| 7 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 8 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 9 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 10 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 11 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
| 12 | On those grounds , the court in reply to the questions referred to it for a preliminary ruling by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , by order of 10 March 1989 , hereby rules : |
| 13 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 14 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 15 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |
| 16 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 17 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 18 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 19 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 20 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 21 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 22 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 23 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 24 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 25 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 26 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 27 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 28 | Screening was also required near Hill End , at 15 miles 77 chains , where the road from Bishop 's Castle drew close to the railway and ran beside it for a short distance . |
| 29 | So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part . |
| 30 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |