Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] it for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 2 | Her mum says we 'd be welcome to rent it for a couple of weeks . |
| 3 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 4 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 5 | He predicts that , within two years or so , people will be able to buy it for the price of a cheap piano . |
| 6 | The school was having trouble with leaks in their stainless steel hydrotherapy pool which resulted in the children being unable to use it for a number of weeks . |
| 7 | The information was n't either was n't available to him or was not understood by him and he was n't able to interpret it for the board . |
| 8 | In 1983 , Aintree racecourse — the home of the Grand National — seemed destined for development and a public appeal had failed to raise the money necessary to purchase it for the nation . |
| 9 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 10 | She glared at Hank as he stood by the front door ready to open it for the paper 's representatives , and tried not to scream while these gentlemen put on their boots again . |
| 11 | On the other hand , where a landlord was entitled to determine a lease for " building sites or planting or other purposes " , he was held not to be entitled to determine it for the purpose of constructing a sports stadium ( Coates v Diment [ 1951 ] 1 All ER 890 ) . |