Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
| 2 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 3 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 4 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 5 | In 1983 , Aintree racecourse — the home of the Grand National — seemed destined for development and a public appeal had failed to raise the money necessary to purchase it for the nation . |
| 6 | His aims are thus established from the outset both to record the evidence he has gathered and to evaluate it for the purposes of determining the truth . |
| 7 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 8 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 9 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 10 | She glared at Hank as he stood by the front door ready to open it for the paper 's representatives , and tried not to scream while these gentlemen put on their boots again . |
| 11 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 12 | Its death had been postponed , which had enabled the Hunt Ball Committee to hire it for the triumphant last appearance of a house that had outlived its glamour , and all kind importances . |
| 13 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
| 14 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 15 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 16 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 17 | It may , in fact , be better to organise it for the day after you move , because being certain that everything will run according to plan on the day of the move is almost impossible , so it is better to do without your cooker overnight and schedule this for the next morning when you know you are definitely going to be there . |
| 18 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 19 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 20 | He predicts that , within two years or so , people will be able to buy it for the price of a cheap piano . |
| 21 | Conservationists and locals fear for the future of the island and a trust has been set up to raise money to buy it for the nation . |
| 22 | Mr Anderton said he was disappointed that he could not afford to keep Vaila , adding that various attempts had been made to interest public and environmental agencies to buy it for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 23 | They have set up a trust fund , the Aber Trust , run independently of them , to raise the money around £200,000 to buy it for the nation . |
| 24 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 25 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |
| 26 | But there is little likelihood of them giving home advantage to Garvey who have gone 32 games without defeat in the competition and need to win it for a record sixth time on the trot to reach Europe next year . |
| 27 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 28 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 29 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 30 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |