Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 2 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 3 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 4 | Most of the 25,000 audience in the Palais Bercy could not see the platform because of the enormous scaffold bridge built across it for the cameras . |
| 5 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |