Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 5 | They 're liable to confiscate it for the further entertainment of customs officers . ’ |
| 6 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |