Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |
| 2 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 3 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 4 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 5 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 6 | I 'll do it for a hundred and thirty quid no more ! |
| 7 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 8 | After his triumph , Benn said : ‘ I do n't want to fight Eubank because I do n't like him but I 'll take it for the million he was asking for . ’ |
| 9 | For a meal , and like , we were really keen to try this and everything , and we , we did n't , we sort of kept saying , oh shall we open this bottle tonight , and they said no , we 'll save it for a special occasion . |
| 10 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 11 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 12 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 13 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 14 | So let's hear it for the greatest tennis player in the world ! |
| 15 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 16 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 17 | The water for drinking they used to collect from the gutters and erm it used to go into big barrels and then they used to boil it for a long while . |
| 18 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 19 | We shall need it for the forty foots . |
| 20 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 21 | I support the intention of the Bill and its important deterrent aspects , and I shall support it for the same reason as the hon. Member for Oxford , East , but I must confess that I do so with some reluctance at this stage . |
| 22 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 23 | Though the supplier has no guarantee of the business , it has an advantage and , once it has the business , the firm can be fairly sure it will keep it for a long time . |
| 24 | But if every man here used his vote as he should and put a Labour government not only in the State of New South Wales but throughout the dominion , not only throughout the dominion but the Commonwealth , not only in the Commonwealth but throughout the world — ’ Bobby was enjoying himself now and so were most of his audience , standing under the afternoon sun. ’ — then the working man will have his true voice and he will make it heard in the corridors of power , for we will be the new power then — and we will use it for the greater good of all . |
| 25 | Those who have a real interest will leave it for a few years before attempting training . |
| 26 | The birth his birthday was twenty four months , that means from when you can buy it for a new born baby or somebody up to two years old , will be suitable for it . |
| 27 | It makes a firmer fabric than an every needle rib , makes a double jacquard pattern shorter and truer to the actual pattern and , also , you can use it for the plain rows instead of the ‘ striper ’ card if you like the texture . |
| 28 | The tourist path , although free from hazards , is a weary treadmill , and active and experienced walkers can reserve it for a quick descent and adopt an alternative route by crossing the midway plateau and descending into the stony recesses of the Allt a' Mhuillinn by rounding the base of Castle Buttress . |
| 29 | • You can have it for a 14 day HOME TRIAL |
| 30 | ‘ No , tell him he can have it for a hundred ! |