Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With something like two-thirds of the whole French Army to pass along it bound for the dreadful Calvary of Verdun , the title Maurice Barres coined for it was hardly a profanity : the Voie Sacrée . |
| 2 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 3 | He now wrote a number of books on it intended for the general reader , including History of Astronomy ( 1909 ) and The Wonder and the Glory of the Stars ( 1926 ) . |
| 4 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 5 | The atmosphere thus acts as a ‘ bottleneck ’ , and could have retained sufficient heat of formation for it to account for the present excess radiation . |