Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for a " 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 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 3 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 4 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 11 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 12 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 13 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 14 | But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off . |
| 15 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 16 | The school was having trouble with leaks in their stainless steel hydrotherapy pool which resulted in the children being unable to use it for a number of weeks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 19 | the word ‘ accent ’ is used elsewhere to refer to different varieties of pronunciation ( e.g. ‘ a foreign accent ’ ) ; it is confusing to use it for a quite different purpose — to a lesser extent we also have this problem with ‘ stress ’ , which can be used to refer to psychological tension . |
| 20 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 21 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 22 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 23 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 24 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 25 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 26 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 27 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 28 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 29 | A silver cup , purchased by subscription the following year , was to be competed for annually , the winning captain to hold it for a year . |
| 30 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |