Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 2 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 3 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 4 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 5 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 6 | This means that you can perform operations on it , such as scanning it for the particular information you want . |
| 7 | The real question in each such case is ‘ Does the patient really mean what he says or is he merely saying it for a quiet life , to satisfy someone else or because the advice and persuasion to which he has been subjected is such that he can no longer think and decide for himself ? ’ |
| 8 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 9 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 11 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 12 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 13 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 14 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 15 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 16 | I mean I ai n't doing it for a whole week . |
| 17 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 18 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 19 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 20 | Revisiting it for the first time , he recalls his high hopes when an angel with marketing skills appeared . |
| 21 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 22 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 23 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 24 | He moved round and joined them and stared intently at the portrait as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 25 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 26 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 27 | Sam looked at the revolver as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 28 | Charles found he was watching much of the play as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 29 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 30 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |