Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't heard about it for years . |
| 2 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 3 | I got asked about it for months . |
| 4 | And she would stay off it for days on end . |
| 5 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 6 | Can you think about it for a minute . |
| 7 | So er she says well you can think about it for a fortnight er you see her daddy put out discos altogether because of the lies but she cos she gets nervous because when she 's telling a lie to you she 'll go red |
| 8 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 9 | Yes , if the sun were to go out now we would n't know about it for eight minutes . |
| 10 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 11 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 12 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 13 | But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture . |
| 14 | If there was a serious disagreement the report would still contain the point but it would say that the school disagreed with it for whatever reason . |
| 15 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 16 | And they will go by what you want from it for the o , over the next few years you know ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Put another way , the more the teacher is explicit about what behaviour is wanted , the less opportunity the pupils have to come to it for themselves and make the underlying knowledge or understanding their own . |
| 19 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 20 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 21 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 22 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Look for small animals attached to the leaf or crowding around it for food . |
| 25 | She wandered around it for a minute until she realized it was odd there were no sounds from him . |
| 26 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 27 | I would n't even think of it for a minute if it was n't best for everybody . |
| 28 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 29 | The cause was a common one and as old as the hills , but I was unable to talk about it for years . |
| 30 | We found the locals do n't like to talk about it for fear of putting off money-spinning tourists . |