Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alright well I think well I think actually well I know we 've droned on about it for half an hour but I think it 's worth a discussion to be quite honest , do n't you ? |
| 2 | I wonder the British do n't bath in it as well , thought Sally-Anne naughtily , but she was grateful for the extra cup , and for the sandwiches which Miss Mates brought in with it for them both . |
| 3 | she 's obviously in it for the bet . |
| 4 | I was only in it for a lark . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm only in it for the fund-raising ! |
| 6 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 7 | Kim 's only in it for the money . |
| 8 | ‘ I agree , but then he was only in it for the money . |
| 9 | He quickly engineered the overthrow of the Conservative and Anglican majorities on the town council and the school board and put in place a political machine which carried all before it for well over a decade . |
| 10 | But there does n't seem to be much in it for the peoples themselves . |
| 11 | Finally I slumped down outside it for a while and went to bed myself . |
| 12 | But she was still in the grip of a puzzling weariness , and she could barely walk by her couch without feeling compelled to drop down on it for a short nap . |
| 13 | The advertisement for the video equivalent of the Mills and Boon novel declares : ‘ Because they 're a branded series , your customers will see one and keep coming back for more ( it may be a new concept in video , but publishers like IPC and Mills and Boon have been doing very nicely on it for years ) ’ ; thus heralding a new departure for the form . |
| 14 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 15 | It rocks you backwards and forwards and is supposed to stimulate the endorphins in your brain , helping to boost thinking power It did n't — but then I was only on it for about 10 minutes before I started feeling sick . |
| 16 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 17 | Its not worth it for you is it , you might have to hang on till after Christmas and try and |
| 18 | Excuse me , you 've ha , you 've tripped your and the you know , the all lad , he said , no it 's not worth it for me , so I 'll be going before you draw it . |
| 19 | It 's not worth it for that |
| 20 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 21 | Since our son found maths difficult he had , quite understandably , decided that it was easier to do none at all — and had got away with it for over six weeks . |
| 22 | Will he get away with it for the rest of his life ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years . |
| 24 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 25 | so he says got away with it for ten years |
| 26 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 27 | you do n't get that with the Conservative party cos they do n't let 'em get away with it for a start |
| 28 | That you see the struggle as demanding too much from you personally and so you want to get right away from it for a while ? ’ |
| 29 | The triangular shape is also common : starting with a broad base , narrowing steadily as one goes away from it for a quarter to half a mile , until one reaches the outlet in a main road of the normal width . |
| 30 | For weeks he tried not to go near it , but he could not stay away from it for long . |