Example sentences of "[prep] it for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 2 | When a tape is full , make a duplicate of it for storage elsewhere . |
| 3 | And so I took with I say with her blessing , took a er a picture of it for posterity . |
| 4 | I will say in moving that , would I note that the property services , the property sub- committee I should say , is receiving a further report on recommendations on how to preserve the long-term viability of the estate , which I consider to be the right priority , erm , the long- term viability of the estate is essential for the value both as an estate and for the value of it er , to us should we need to dispose of any of it for development land in the future . |
| 5 | Mr Devall said if the nitrate removal plant house was built it would take water from the Stour , remove nitrates from part of it for drinking water in Essex and return the rest into the Stour . |
| 6 | A photographer takes pictures , and the whole thing is tape-recorded ( just as practically everything we say is tape-recorded ) so that the students can make use of it for interpretation or translation practice later on . |
| 7 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 8 | OAG members examined the dumped waste , suspecting that Raybestos was dumping asbestos waste there while being prevented from dumping in Ringaskiddy , and sent some of it for analysis to London . |
| 9 | If we can manage to get the tree-house finished by tomorrow , I 'll show you a way we can give him a piece of it for Father 's Day . ’ |
| 10 | Others made use of it for axe or adze blades , among them the Indians of Amazonia , the Haida of Queen Charlotte Island , British Columbia , and the Eskimos of the Kobuk river , Alaska . |
| 11 | The Vietnamese , who have kept a few items of sunken treasure for a museum in Hanoi , but sent most of it for auction in the West , pronounced themselves well satisfied . |
| 12 | The works , which have just started , will cost £191,000 and involve making the early-Victorian listed building wind and water tight and restoring part of it for use by the Brechin Railway Preservation Society . |
| 13 | In August we had a very happy weekend with Rob 's family in the Lake District , and this Autumn there was no need to move far from here , for I have never known an Autumn like it for sun , and abundance of colour which lasted , slowly getting deeper and richer , for about 10 weeks . |
| 14 | He now stumbled round the head of the couch and from there , leaning against it for support , he growled at her , ‘ If I go she comes with me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Like Jenny ? ’ she whispered , and clutched the door-jamb behind her , leaning against it for support , directly parallel to him . |
| 16 | PA Consulting , which prepared the secret report on Warren Spring 's future , has also competed against it for government contracts . |
| 17 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 18 | In 1911–12 Major Morrison-Bell MP constructed a model to demonstrate these disparities of distribution and had toured the country with it for propaganda purposes ; the obvious over-representation of Ireland was especially useful to a Unionist party that wished to claim that Redmond was holding the Empire to ransom . |
| 19 | And even before doing this it can examine the firms already registered with it for suitability . |
| 20 | Even among the 3 men who aligned with the UUUC , there was reluctance to identify too closely with it for fear of losing a stratum of middle-class voters more conscious of social status than constitutional complexities . |
| 21 | The press today lives alongside the power of television and competes with it for allegiance and influence . |
| 22 | There was a chest-of-drawers painted pale blue with flowers cut from seed-packets glued onto it for decoration . |
| 23 | Those of us with long memories would place Henry Cooper 's two fights with Muhammad Ali and his defence of the British , European and Commonwealth heavyweight titles against Joe Bugner way above it for class and public interest . |
| 24 | Uncertainty occurs where the court is not sure whether the statute was designed to cover the factual situation which is before it for decision . |
| 25 | Although he did not completely discard the astrological concept of destiny , Plutarch argued that there was a place in it for contingency . |
| 26 | It must , he thought , have been decades since a fire was lit in it for warmth . |
| 27 | Unused fireplaces should be blocked off , but the material used must have a number of good sized holes in it for ventilation . |
| 28 | Then the icy touch of the water reminded her that she had planned to cool the hock in it for Finn and the bastard was n't here ; and for a moment her towel served as a handkerchief as she mourned , and then , since she considered it degrading to weep for a faithless man , she dried her eyes and her ears and under her chin and returned with springing step to the cottage . |
| 29 | Yong lent us a precious scuba tank and a regulator to take with us , saying : " Use it as you like , but please keep some air in it for Aru . |
| 30 | It 's got everything you can think of in it for sewing and that you know so |