Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 2 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 3 | In many such cases earners of the foreign currency might be expected to exchange it for their own . |
| 4 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 5 | But I ca n't help feeling that this is strictly a US product and that no attempt has been made to localize it for UK or European markets . |
| 6 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 7 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 8 | It was one with which she was already familiar , both of them having helped construct it for regular meditations . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
| 10 | That , that you 've got to create it for them . |
| 11 | Got to use it for the paint . |
| 12 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 13 | Now they 've got to do it for themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ If I do it for you , I 've got to do it for everyone … |
| 15 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 16 | How long have you got to do it for ? |
| 17 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 18 | I said , he said I ca n't do it , you 've got to do it for me ! |
| 19 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 20 | Gloria had told her she 'd got to keep it for ever . |
| 21 | Would n't recommend masses into it , but because it 's no income potential , and it 's not that flexible , you 've got to keep it for five years to make it really work . |
| 22 | If you would like to receive my prayer letter please contact Joyce MacPherson who has kindly agreed to distribute it for me . |
| 23 | There are a few well-rehearsed cases in which all the information provided by a text is not used to interpret it For example , people often fail to see what is wrong with asking of an air crash on a national frontier ‘ where were the survivors buried ? ’ or they fail to see why saying that a book ‘ fills a much-needed gap ’ is an insult to its author . |
| 24 | Welcome back : Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate and urgent action is needed to protect it for future generations . |
| 25 | Cos I 've got to finish it for the morning . |
| 26 | And we 've had to pay it for from the twentieth of September to the eighth of October . |
| 27 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 28 | Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required . |
| 29 | Which means you 've got to make it for about twelve or fourteen . |
| 30 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |