Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home . |
| 2 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 3 | ( I remember it well for the sun shortly afterwards disappeared and we did not see it for weeks . ) |
| 4 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 5 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 6 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 7 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 8 | You did it just for the delight of fishing . ’ |
| 9 | She wrote , The Love and Lives of the She Devil , and she 's written it , she wrote it especially for The Orange Tree Theatre about ten years ago , and now she 's re-doing it , |
| 10 | The house is all straight and you 're tired and then the kids come home from school and upset the house again , so you remake it again for the next day . |
| 11 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 12 | Unless we put it out for the cat . |
| 13 | now it 's thirty five or thirty six I mean they put it up for the er crisis |
| 14 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 15 | They showed no sign of brotherly love as they battled it out for the runner-up spot before the record crowd . |
| 16 | When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 . |
| 17 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |