Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon threw the ball high , running for it himself and falling to catch it just for the pleasure of movement in sunshine . |
| 2 | Ouch , I thought , that really hurt , and I clenched it tight for a moment to stop the pain , before looking to see the damage . |
| 3 | Robinson regarded it cautiously for a moment , then shook it , feeling the power in the other man 's grip . |
| 4 | ‘ That may appeal to you , but there 's no way I would consider it even for a moment . ’ |
| 5 | For example , Mr X gives property to Mr Z who holds it absolutely for the infant unmarried son of Mr X. That is a transfer of an asset and a settlement for the purposes of ss663 and 664 ( although the Revenue may not apply ss663 where the income is not paid to the infant ) . |
| 6 | Or do you think she just put it there for the argument ? |
| 7 | Now I find if you put it aside for an hour or two and do something else you can already come to it fresh . |
| 8 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 9 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 10 | Yeah , , so erm , I 've got to get some medicine for all of us in a minute , put the prescription in , but erm , you know , she 's had it really for a week like , even though she was treated for thrush |
| 11 | ‘ I used to visit it everyday and it 's just so hard to know I wo n't see it again for a while . |
| 12 | ‘ Will you take the dog back with you or shall I keep it here for a while ? ’ |
| 13 | Is it not high time that a proper review was carried out of exacty what space exists throughout the Palace , so that we can use it well for the benefit of our constituents and for other purposes ? |
| 14 | I could n't motivate myself to do it just for the sake of it . |
| 15 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 16 | ( I remember it well for the sun shortly afterwards disappeared and we did not see it for weeks . ) |
| 17 | Do n't have it just for the thing that 's free inside . |
| 18 | Marty McCann breathed a sigh of relief as he watched his intended back pass rebound off the post for the keeper to scramble it away for a corner . |
| 19 | Someone must have brought it here for a purpose , but I must admit it looks abandoned . |
| 20 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 21 | When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ Keep it here for a while . |
| 24 | He saw it only for a second . |
| 25 | I wo n't mention it again for a while . ’ |
| 26 | I could tell he was keen from the fact that he did n't mention it again for a couple of years . |
| 27 | He put an arm around her shoulders and kept it there for a moment . |
| 28 | ‘ Look , there 's the holes where it was unscrewed before they brought it here for an altar . |
| 29 | Entrenched competitors can make it hard for a supplier to win new orders . |
| 30 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |