Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petal DK , a long established yarn in 100g balls with a lustre effect has four new designs to support it for 1992 . |
| 2 | And David says it for all of us , I was born in sin and shapen in inequity . |
| 3 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 4 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 5 | have managers been made adequately aware of the potential of the system and given help to use it for strategic and management control decision making ? |
| 6 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 7 | So if he sells it thirty , just , he wo n't even cover his overheads on that but it means instead of having it delivered you go down to Joe 's shop get it for thirty P save yourself five P . |
| 8 | His team won it for sure in the second half , with tries from full-back , Martin Roberts and flanker , Pete Glanville . |
| 9 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 10 | You and Matthew have it for each other so bad you probably could n't add two and two together . ’ |
| 11 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 12 | Heated debate over the dam project took place during the 15-day NPC session , with many delegates opposing it for environmental and financial reasons . |
| 13 | ( The French , being Socialist , have to train girls to cook , but being chauvinists , only let males do it for real . |
| 14 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 15 | My friend bought it for two hundred pounds second-hand . |
| 16 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 17 | As Jim Perrin almost explained in his highly perceptive and barely obscure September piece , today 's rock climber does it for extrinsic reasons , creating a gulf between that activity and the intrinsic moves of the other mountain activities . |
| 18 | And that Ivor switched it for another , less valuable guinea ? ’ |
| 19 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 20 | Since then the Edinburgh Zoo has seen upwards of 50 000 people using it for this purpose in a year . |
| 21 | Marion refilled it for each of them . |
| 22 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 23 | The Radio Times stressed that Ghostwatch with Mike Parkinson on Saturday was a drama yet people took it for real . |
| 24 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 25 | But years later he was able to tell his brothers : ‘ You meant it for evil , but God meant it for good . ’ |
| 26 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 27 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 28 | Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats . |
| 29 | ‘ The delay has cost £20,000 and we can buy a gold door to replace it for less than that . ’ |
| 30 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |