Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century .
2 That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long
3 She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time .
4 On those grounds , the court in reply to the questions referred to it for a preliminary ruling by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , by order of 10 March 1989 , hereby rules :
5 Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept .
6 Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years .
7 Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for .
8 But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really
9 So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part .
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