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

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1 Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on .
2 Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other .
3 ‘ I did not bring it for that purpose , ’ said Andrus hoarsely .
4 She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself .
5 He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid .
6 Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure .
7 Sort of , you 've got your health knock out sixty seventy , right we can do it for another year .
8 ‘ I do n't do it for any reason of self . ’
9 Ya so that if the goes up to thirty thousand the reserve might be large enough to give it to sell it for that price .
10 When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time .
11 save it for that trip .
12 ‘ I hope we can reach agreement with China and that , where we have disagreements , they wo n't poison our relationship right across the board — certainly wo n't poison it for all time , ’ said Mr Patten .
13 I 've had it for some time — like a little nest
14 Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment .
15 I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’
16 He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him .
17 Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with
18 Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day .
19 And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent .
20 To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm .
21 I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading .
22 ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon .
23 My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's .
24 Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now .
25 I goes er , oh I 'm recording it for this thing , she goes oh yeah my beard , ha , I was going I am , ha , but she did n't believe me , can I have some sauce please ?
26 I goes er oh , I 'm recording it for this thing and she goes , oh yeah my big head !
27 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 .
28 The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage .
29 And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason .
30 I suppose I 'm going to do , that while I 'm doing it for each course ,
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