Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon noticed myself rapidly approaching a fallen tree over the surface of the river and as I rushed towards it I clung on to it for dear life . |
| 2 | And I do n't want to go on like it for any longer . |
| 3 | ‘ Can I hang on to it for a while ? ’ |
| 4 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 5 | A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard . |
| 6 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years . |
| 8 | so he says got away with it for ten years |
| 9 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 10 | The triangular shape is also common : starting with a broad base , narrowing steadily as one goes away from it for a quarter to half a mile , until one reaches the outlet in a main road of the normal width . |
| 11 | For weeks he tried not to go near it , but he could not stay away from it for long . |
| 12 | He could borrow enough to buy an asset in the cash market , hold on to it for T years ( earning any income but bearing any carrying costs including interest on borrowed funds involved ) , and then sell it in the cash market and also repay the loan with interest . |
| 13 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 14 | I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk . |
| 15 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 16 | Since our son found maths difficult he had , quite understandably , decided that it was easier to do none at all — and had got away with it for over six weeks . |
| 17 | More sink puts him well below the intended glide path , but instead of making the decision to choose a field and look around near it for more lift , he glides on . |
| 18 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 19 | They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look . |
| 20 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
| 21 | It 's gone now , but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time . |
| 22 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 23 | But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me . |
| 24 | Later , when the Northern Ireland Office was established , it relied heavily on it for the information on which it based security and political activities . |
| 25 | He put it on and walked round with it for about ten minutes before we had the nerve to say anything to him . |
| 26 | Finally I slumped down outside it for a while and went to bed myself . |
| 27 | Appalled by the racism she observed there , she worked energetically against it for the rest of her life , giving extensive financial support to the Black trade union movement . |
| 28 | The voluntary sector is a large employer of ACE schemes and now relies heavily on it for its funding . |
| 29 | For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that . |
| 30 | But then even if they do that and even if they get the franchise , they 're not going to be able to say , we can now hold on to it for five , or seven , years , however long the franchise is going to be , because if another bidder comes along in the meantime and says , we rather like this ourselves , they 'll be thrown off . |