Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] it [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 , the village pub was threatened with closure when the brewery put it up for sale . |
| 2 | We come now to vote on this addendum to deliverance n number four and , since it is in print , we do n't need to ask the clerk to read it out for us , so therefore as , ask those who wish to vote for this addendum would you please stand . |
| 3 | Shiona thought disapprovingly , as she crossed to the coffee-maker to switch it on for herself . |
| 4 | It is n't a question of the Director working it out for the Designer . |
| 5 | In the thirtieth minute , Gary Weaving scored what looked like a perfectly good goal , only for the linesman to rule it out for offside , to everyone 's dismay . |
| 6 | Now you know this , do n't start applying it rigorously as a rule which will inhibit your sailing , merely let the body work it out for itself by noticing the levelness of the horizon . |
| 7 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 8 | To have it in er Daily Post , The Post is the morning one The Echo 's the evening to have it in for one day in The Post and The Echo , how much ? |
| 9 | He specialises in the period between 1500 and 1675 and is also keen on art : last year he bought a Van Dyck from Althorp when the Spencers put it up for sale . |
| 10 | The BBC switches it on for you by remote control smart card technology and training material is sent through the post . ’ |
| 11 | Now in a big department store , say like Debenhams , you could go in , and you could select your cloth and get the ladies round the back to make it up for you . |
| 12 | But it was left to Oxford Hawks in the gold shirts and Gloucester City in the red to battle it out for the minor places in a Central South derby . |
| 13 | The people fill it up for her . |
| 14 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 15 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 16 | The data is then made public ; the full dataset and the commands to set it up for processing by the statistical package SPSS- X can be obtained from the Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex for the cost of processing . |
| 17 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |
| 18 | What a load of bull … the bidders fight it out for the best of British beef . |
| 19 | ‘ It is n't a question of the Designer working it out for the Director . |