Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , if the sun were to go out now we would n't know about it for eight minutes . |
| 2 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 3 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 4 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 5 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 6 | She 's suffered from it for 30 years . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 8 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 9 | People looking to it for educational use , or a big company HQ . |
| 10 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 11 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 12 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 13 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 14 | Even where such material is not incorporated by reference apparently reference may still be made to it for contextual or confirmatory purposes . |
| 15 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 17 | But when we have got such a satisfactory outcome , unless subsequent events show that we have got it wrong , or that we have wrongly read the environment or some other major change , we would aim to stick with it for some years . |
| 18 | Any new food regime has to be simple to follow if you are to stick with it for any length of time . |
| 19 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 20 | In a minute he would go and run a hot bath , luxuriate in it for ten minutes or so , and then get his head down . |
| 21 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 22 | Yeah , well it 's , they 've done nowt but look at it for last three month . |
| 23 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 24 | He dipped the flannel in the water and bathed the swollen joint not once but many times , leaving the flannel wrapped around it for long seconds each time . |
| 25 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 26 | So there we are we 've got one lot of twelve or we might be able to have two lots of what see what you can make with it for two lots . |
| 27 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 28 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 29 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 30 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |