Example sentences of "[vb infin] it for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wo n't need it for a bit if this weather goes on . |
| 2 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 3 | The birth his birthday was twenty four months , that means from when you can buy it for a new born baby or somebody up to two years old , will be suitable for it . |
| 4 | We could introduce it for a trial period , we could |
| 5 | I did I did n't doubt it for a minute , I thought I know this |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't doubt it for a moment . ’ |
| 7 | Oh their life 's can be totally wrecked , I do n't doubt it for a moment . |
| 8 | Er what I actually mean is whenever you have an idiom , you can substitute in the position of a whole sentence or of a verb phrase , but you ca n't substitute it for a subject and a verb , leaving the object of the sentence intact . |
| 9 | You ca n't beat it for a breath of fresh air — wing walking . |
| 10 | wan na borrow it for a night do n't you ? |
| 11 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 12 | No man , however enslaved to beauty , would ever carry it for a woman . |
| 13 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 14 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |
| 15 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 16 | And you can do it for a fraction of the price and without finding yourself on first-name-terms with your local AA recovery team . |
| 17 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 18 | There are women who will do it for a glass of champagne ! |
| 19 | The car would do it for a minute or two . |
| 20 | You can do it for a week . |
| 21 | I 'll do it for a hundred and thirty quid no more ! |
| 22 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
| 23 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 24 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 25 | Fox did n't believe it for a minute . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't believe it for a single moment , darling , ’ she repeated earnestly . |
| 27 | Though she did n't believe it for a moment . |
| 28 | Commenting on the scope of a scheme that can give every farmer a stake in conservation , he said : ‘ If someone wants to make a 20 metre-wide headland , he can run it for a mile and still use up only eight acres of his set-aside land . ’ |
| 29 | I think it can store it for a while , too . |
| 30 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |