Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 2 | While Dirk de Vos , curator of the Stedelijke Museum , Bruges , has asked for it to be included in his forthcoming Memling exhibition , the date of 1496 on the frame ( two year 's after Memling 's death ) led Sotheby 's to stick to ‘ School of Bruges , late fifteenth century ’ , suggesting a Franco-Flemish or Burgundian artist , close to the Master of the Moulins . |
| 3 | A plump woman in a white wool suit and dark glasses bought it and tried to pay for it by cheque . |
| 4 | The cut-off rules which determine which records will be retrieved , and what weight a record has to achieve for it to be counted as a possible match , are fairly complex and purely pragmatic , being based on experience from repetition of real searches . |
| 5 | But if elected on June 8th , he plans to pay for it by leasing the city 's international airport for 30 years to a private-sector manager . |
| 6 | The motive was simple and comparatively cost-free : if the Lebanese villagers allowed armed Palestinians to take shelter among their homes , then they would be made to pay for it in blood . |
| 7 | I got nicked for it at Low Newton . |
| 8 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 9 | Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system . |
| 10 | A bit of fat never did a boy any harm , but we 're not going to pay for it as if it was lean . |
| 11 | Karen had a cheeseburger and lived to regret opting for it to be well done , as it turned up dry as a bone inside a bap as wrinkled as Sid James ' face . |
| 12 | Our leaders lost much support because they rejected the peace dividend policy of the delegate conference year after year and failed to campaign for it for years before 9 April , 1992 . |
| 13 | But rather than saying , ‘ Sorry mate , you 'll have to wait for it to be repaired , ’ Doug said , ‘ Take that one over there ! ’ pointing to an equivalent amp . |
| 14 | Did you have to wait for it to be done ? |
| 15 | Having arranged for it to be put on the grave that afternoon , he returned to Weatherbury in the evening , with a basket of flowering plants . |
| 16 | Of course what I really need is something chemical and crystalline but I do n't have any and would n't know where to start looking for it in Inverness . |
| 17 | You do n't have to fish for it in your pocket as you see trouble coming . |
| 18 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 19 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 20 | I ca n't recall precisely but I , I imagine yes it would have been up , I would have asked for it to be updated at September eighty seven as well |
| 21 | Had the examiner wanted such a discussion he would have asked for it in a separate part of the question . |
| 22 | These are the things that they 're having to pay for it with , and the reason being , is the Social Services in this county were a diabolically low level , and people were definitely suffering from it . |
| 23 | That relieved me from the embarrassment of having to ask for it in front of the stoical poker-faced brigade of women who often assembled in the shop in their curlers and headsquares to pass the time of day . |
| 24 | That is what you would have paid for it in 1982 . |
| 25 | I went looking for it with my cousin Peter . " |
| 26 | It would seem fitting for it to be converted and put to some useful purpose , retaining what remains of its equipment , before the deterioration becomes too great . |
| 27 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 28 | The librarian handed it to Roland Michell , who was sitting waiting for it in the Reading Room of the London Library . |
| 29 | I was advised by my legal advisers in the Department , and subsequently by first Treasury counsel , that that order was beyond the power of the court , and I was given leave to apply for it to be varied or discharged . |
| 30 | This service averages over five hundred separate insertions per month , and while in the strictest sense of the term you do pay for it via the call charge , it still represents amazing value for money . |