Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 5 | Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept . |