Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm looking after it for Cherry . |
| 2 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 3 | Any new food regime has to be simple to follow if you are to stick with it for any length of time . |
| 4 | She 's suffered from it for 30 years . |
| 5 | This causes a reaction even after they have been entangled for the rabbits are inclined to bite at the net if they are left within it for too long . |
| 6 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 7 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 8 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |