Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A couple of hours of hard graft should see it ready for the next stage of its facelift , and might also tire her out enough to get some sleep .
2 She must take it easy for the next few days .
3 ‘ I 'll have it ready for the next bout .
4 Guido reckons he 'll have it ready for the qualifying trials . ’
5 With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them .
6 Does not that make it difficult for the United Nations to carry out a peacekeeping role ?
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