Example sentences of "[prep] it for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specificity of this form of violence or coercion has to be recognized , however one feels about the terrible consequences of it for the innocent . |
| 2 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 3 | Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . |
| 4 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 5 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 6 | But the character of the report as it turned out in the end owed a great deal to Sir William Beveridge himself , who determined to make a ‘ crusade ’ out of it for the sake of the achievement of social reform . |
| 7 | He wondered if his outlook would change , or if this was going to be the pattern of it for the future . |
| 8 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 9 | Appalled by the racism she observed there , she worked energetically against it for the rest of her life , giving extensive financial support to the Black trade union movement . |
| 10 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
| 11 | Will he get away with it for the rest of his life ? ’ |
| 12 | But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture . |
| 13 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 14 | The County Council as a whole , is now operating and using this new logo amber conditions , that go with it for the employment of the disabled . |
| 15 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 16 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 17 | There was no salvation outside the church and no place within it for the deviant . |
| 18 | We 're in the happy position of not needing any more money , so for the first time the bosses are n't in it for the profit . |
| 19 | It comes naturally to some people , but there should be night-school classes in it for the rest of us . |
| 20 | I 'm only in it for the fund-raising ! |
| 21 | Perhaps a crewman stumbles , it could be the gloop is n't hot enough , maybe there is n't enough pepper in it for the cook 's liking . |
| 22 | A new product release , for example , might be angled for the consumer media along the lines of the second release given above for Brand A. But for the retail trade press much more emphasis will need to be given to discounts , special promotions and advertising — in fact , full details of what 's in it for the retailer . |
| 23 | What 's in it for the nurse ? |
| 24 | I know we got a mention in it for the museum and that was , oh did you get your keepsake ? |
| 25 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 26 | The syllabus for modern languages in the GCSE is very full ; but there is no place in it for the teaching of grammar . |
| 27 | They 're in it for the love of the game . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's been a reversal to bands saying , ‘ We 're just in it for the music ’ , and we 're not like that at all . |
| 29 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 30 | What 's in it for the developer ? |