Example sentences of "[vb past] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 2 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 3 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 4 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 5 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 6 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 7 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 8 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 9 | ‘ Changed it for another , did n't I ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 11 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 12 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 13 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 14 | Paxton 's SRI trials ( Paxton 1977 ) found that island-driving improved performance for shorter sentences but decreased it for longer ones . |
| 15 | Marion refilled it for each of them . |
| 16 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 17 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 18 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 19 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 20 | To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm . |
| 21 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 22 | The stability of the building was also queried and Mr. Fair ‘ absolutely guaranteed it for 200 years ! ’ |
| 23 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 24 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 25 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 26 | Further analysis showed no differences in results between schools in which the projects were taught for only the minimum time compared with those that taught it for longer . |
| 27 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 28 | And that Ivor switched it for another , less valuable guinea ? ’ |
| 29 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 30 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |