Example sentences of "[verb] it for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
| 2 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 3 | He wo n't need it for a bit if this weather goes on . |
| 4 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 5 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 6 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 9 | On Feb. 26 the policy was presented to the Sejm ( lower chamber ) , which referred it for a report by its economic , finance and budgetary committee . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , skip it for a bit ! |
| 11 | ‘ I never forget it for a minute , ’ said Gabriel . |
| 12 | Cook it for a few minutes longer than stated and eat it |
| 13 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 14 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 15 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 16 | We could introduce it for a trial period , we could |
| 17 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 18 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 19 | Melcarek and Brown then used it for a study of the effects of chill stress on both prompt and delayed fluorescence . |
| 20 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 21 | The Department of Transportation in Maryland , for example , used it for an interactive touch-screen system providing tourists with video , textual , graphical and audio information about the city and its transport network . |
| 22 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 23 | She tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 24 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 25 | He actually came into Frankfurt in his hired BMW , then changed it for a Mercedes . |
| 26 | yeah , cos you changed it for a |
| 27 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 28 | they want it for a |
| 29 | I did I did n't doubt it for a minute , I thought I know this |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't doubt it for a moment . ’ |