Example sentences of "[prep] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 2 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 3 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 4 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 5 | I 'm far too fond of it for that . |
| 6 | I had sight of it for five minutes and decided to use it . ’ |
| 7 | If so , please take note of it for future reference . |
| 8 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 9 | It 's mainly for adults , but the Home Office is considering using part of it for young people awaiting trial or sentence.It 's that potential for criminal cross fetilisation that 's worrying the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 10 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 11 | I would n't be without this for the world and use it , or parts of it for different jobs all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 13 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |
| 15 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 16 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 17 | As with Elizabethan concepts of society , where each man was supposed to labour in his vocation and place , each character usually belongs to one medium and only moves out of it for special and clearly defined purposes , love , hate , respect , mockery , dissimulation , self-revelation . |
| 18 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 19 | Derby when just run out of it for third place by Fly Smasher . |
| 20 | Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious . |
| 21 | In America The Hymnal 1980 contains no fewer than 288 examples of service music and it is permissible to reproduce some of it for congregational use . |
| 22 | More sink puts him well below the intended glide path , but instead of making the decision to choose a field and look around near it for more lift , he glides on . |
| 23 | I was climbing in low gear , my eyes searching the vehicle and the bank behind it for any sign of movement . |
| 24 | He was angry with it for existing , and terrified by the reminder that one day he might catch it himself . |
| 25 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 26 | So , stick with it for four months , and you 'll have all the information you need to look like an expert down at the pub ! |
| 27 | He is too relaxed for all the questions with which he is being bombarded , and full of wonder at how golfers such as Nicklaus and Watson have coped with it for all these years . |
| 28 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
| 29 | So there we are we 've got one lot of twelve or we might be able to have two lots of what see what you can make with it for two lots . |
| 30 | They 'll play with it for two or three years yet , and in the end very probably nothing will come of it . |