Example sentences of "[verb] it for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We do n't need it for the expansion of our race ; indeed , it 's inimical to orderly civilization .
2 ‘ I 'll need it for the bike when we arrive .
3 Just a , the thing wear just a black sweater with it , the thing is now , he 's gon na need it for the football matches in he , a suit ?
4 Common Law could not prevent the trustee employing it for the wife 's benefit , and Equity would compel him to do so .
5 We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’
6 The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 .
7 I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good .
8 Persuaded by his own musical studies of the need to educate rather than indoctrinate church musicians , he extended the aims of the College of Church Music , incorporating it for the purpose in 1875 ‘ by special licence under Act of Parliament ’ as Trinity College , London .
9 ‘ We had it fitted out in the States , changed it for the case provided by the Pentagon just before take-off last night . ’
10 He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage .
11 Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life .
12 ‘ Who holds it for the Empress ? ’
13 But again Hal believed it for the truth .
14 If IBM actually endorses it for the Presentation Manager it will become a second standard !
15 In 1983 , Aintree racecourse — the home of the Grand National — seemed destined for development and a public appeal had failed to raise the money necessary to purchase it for the nation .
16 ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’
17 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
18 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
19 The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration .
20 So , have you done it for the deadline ?
21 They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor .
22 She done it for the burial club money .
23 As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world .
24 He would n't have missed it for the world . ’
25 ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy .
26 She glared at Hank as he stood by the front door ready to open it for the paper 's representatives , and tried not to scream while these gentlemen put on their boots again .
27 If I had a kid , I 'd maroon it for the afternoon , on a lilo anchored several feet away with waterproof crayons and wax paper to draw on .
28 Let it for the Summer and Autumn .
29 they were having one here as well and erm they booked it for the day and they were staying there overnight , cos they were , they 've got a house and they were gon na let guests stay at their house and while they stayed up there and then
30 ‘ I 'll date it for the day after tomorrow , if that 's OK ? ’
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