Example sentences of "[prep] it for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |
| 2 | He is too relaxed for all the questions with which he is being bombarded , and full of wonder at how golfers such as Nicklaus and Watson have coped with it for all these years . |
| 3 | While business was buoyant there was a living in it for many small shops that are liable to succumb in a climate where 40 per cent of the country are wanting independent deals , and the remainder are demanding much improved advice and service . |
| 4 | And I got a bag from erm Woolworths all blue shells in it for two ninety |
| 5 | This chamber is also unnaturally cold ; anyone who remains in it for one complete turn will take an automatic Wound unless they have some magical protection against cold . |
| 6 | Well , they erm seem to think we should have had some yellow in it for some obscure reason to match the programme , but I do n't know , I thing it would have taken the erm the look off the thing . |
| 7 | The space of desperation is a wide one , and if there is room in it for little stunted people , there is room too for figures that are a mile or an inch high . |
| 8 | A high dry-stone wall enclosed the land round it for some four or five acres , and inside this enclosure were more trees , oak and fir and beech above the massed colours of rhododendrons in flower , with one big horse-chestnut in full bloom holding its creamy candelabra out across the wall . |
| 9 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 10 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 11 | We sat around chewing on it for another thirty minutes or so . |
| 12 | That 's what that diploma was , you know , paid me for it for that five hun , that 's what it was |
| 13 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 14 | It was difficult to draw well in such conditions , among the noise and confusion , standing in mud in the squalls of rain , but worth it for all that . |
| 15 | Yeah , well it 's , they 've done nowt but look at it for last three month . |