Example sentences of "[prep] it for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 2 | Now no level headed business man in his right senses would recommend that they dispose of any part of it for a temporary , permanent gipsy site or whatever you like to call it . |
| 3 | It would be a holiday to discard the worry of it for a few days . |
| 4 | He wrote this book , he started Traidcraft off , he was the person who was i his brainchild , he was the driving force behind it for a long time . |
| 5 | Manville toyed with it for a few moments , imagining the corridors of the Pentagon and White House alive with zooming figures , grey-flannel covered asses farting tongues of flame . |
| 6 | They can live with it for a few months , but not longer which is why they have such a high turnover of staff . |
| 7 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 8 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 9 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 10 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 11 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 12 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 13 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 14 | Once it has been lifted from the frames it will be offered to the NRM who have expressed interest in it for a projected display . |
| 15 | She had a cloud of short hair curving in clinging waves about her head , the colour of barley silk , and under the feathery fringe her forehead bulged childishly , with room in it for a notable brain , the one thing about her that was not suavely curved and ivory-smooth . |
| 16 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 17 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 18 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 19 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 21 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 22 | They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look . |
| 23 | Erm that it it it will be erm that by law the County Council must consider any planning application which is made erm to it for a particular site . |
| 24 | ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments . |
| 25 | On those grounds , the court in reply to the questions referred to it for a preliminary ruling by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , by order of 10 March 1989 , hereby rules : |
| 26 | But before getting into bed she emptied her bag out on it for a final attempt to work out what he had wanted , possibly taken . |
| 27 | Well , in my observation , as regards young boys , it er th they played could play them up , the lads would play pranks on the teacher , who would put the best on it for a long time . |
| 28 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 29 | machine until Monday and then though we 'll take him off , of course being on it for a long period |
| 30 | on it for a little while now . |