Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a very unnatural mother I should think myself if I did not make a push to secure it for Gerald ! ’ |
| 2 | This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers . |
| 3 | C. and D. then , fraudulently and without the defendant 's knowledge , made arrangements with the building society to borrow £15,000 on the security of the property to enable them to purchase it for £24,500 from the defendant . |
| 4 | If paper does not rot , why bother to substitute it for plastic ? |
| 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 | Programmes were mostly serious ; entertainment was mostly a cartoon for children ( ‘ Sindibad and Ali Baba ’ ) which also had some following among adults ; people much enjoyed a Syrian comedy series , and owners of video-recorders would tape it , to replay it for friends and visitors . |
| 7 | He put some very special old wine on the table in front of the King and said , ‘ Duke Michael offers you this wine and asks you to drink it for love of him . ’ |
| 8 | Back To The Future star Michael J Fox cut the price of his house in Bel Air by half to sell it for £1.3 million . |
| 9 | Green was evidently helping to sell it for Yates in Manchester , as Harrop 's Mercury , December 12th 1787 , p.1906 says , ‘ subscribers may be supplied also by Mr. Green , Manchester , who was an assistant in this work ’ . |
| 10 | He calculates the car will last two more years after which he thinks he will be able to sell it for £400 . |
| 11 | Like PEPS everywhere , this was slow to catch on , especially as dealers were forced to sell it for days at a time without getting paid commission for it , so most did n't bother . |
| 12 | He sent a copy to Hall , with a request to sell it for sixpence at the exhibition . |
| 13 | I 'd even begun to mistake it for part of my own body , an incurable growth that I 've got to learn to live with . |
| 14 | ‘ A part of your father 's gift I think you have , if you can learn not to deface it for spite because I am in the same world with you . ’ |
| 15 | Erm very extensive business park development took place , land values on these industrial areas rose accordingly and all manufacturing uses were either er destabilized because their land values now became greater than the businesses that were on them , or new manufacturing plant simply could not acquire the land at affordable prices because there were always people willing to buy it for B one . |
| 16 | He offers to buy it for £1,000 . |
| 17 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 18 | And I think and perhaps when I was younger I used to buy it for Derek , but I would n't go there now , no . |
| 19 | He went upstairs to his shattered bedroom to fetch it for Harry . |
| 20 | Instead , Nayim 's cutback from the byline on the left enabled Lineker to win it for Tottenham . |
| 21 | DAVID BOWIE is to play it for laughs alongside funnyman Griff Rhys Jones in a new £1.5 million telly show . |
| 22 | She offered to do it for Simon and he thought it was a good idea but er he never quite got around to doing it . |
| 23 | As far as East Germany is concerned , no doubt Western Germany will take care of that now , er who could or would be able to do it for Poland Czechoslovakia , Rumania and the Soviet Union , is very much more difficult to see , and of course , if the West were to rebuild all their , all their factories , er and they were all modern , and with their cheap labour force , they would then com , almost completely er destroy our industry I guess in competition so that we would have a , that would be another problem I guess . |
| 24 | It was a big step to do it and I wanted to do it for Freddie . |
| 25 | We have to remember that we are not the only people who take recreation in the countryside ; we share it with others , whose views about disfiguring a crag with bolts and taking a drill there to do it for goodness sake ! may be very different from ours . |
| 26 | I 'd been meaning to do it for days and I keep asking myself whether it was my fault her killer got in . ’ |
| 27 | In the course of a beauty parade , Price Waterhouse took the audit from Coopers & Lybrand , but agreed to do it for 14% less . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You know what I want to do — and I wanted to do it for Jimi 's birthday in his anniversary year , but it did n't happen — I want to get everybody that ever recorded with him , anybody who played live with him , get them all at a big reunion and go out and play Hendrix all night long — every song that I know , every song that we could possibly do . |
| 30 | ‘ Not if you 're going to use it for lies , propaganda and distortion , ’ said the Press Liaison Officer . |