Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 2 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 3 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 4 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 5 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 6 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 7 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 8 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 9 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 10 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 11 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 12 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 13 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 14 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 15 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 16 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 17 | The tower soon became part of the landscape , so much so , that Berners donned his artist 's hat to paint it for the local shell guide . |
| 18 | Skill is also required to arrange it for a particular choir , group or instruments . |
| 19 | In fact , a musical dedicated to Elvis is on tour , giving two fans the chance to see it for the FORTIETH time . |
| 20 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 21 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 22 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 23 | They 're liable to confiscate it for the further entertainment of customs officers . ’ |
| 24 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 25 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 26 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 27 | Part of the LEATGS grant might for example , be delegated for schools to administer , but they would have to spend it for the specified purpose of in-service training . |
| 28 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 29 | The water for drinking they used to collect from the gutters and erm it used to go into big barrels and then they used to boil it for a long while . |