Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] it [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Financial Times ' headline ‘ US and UK groups battle it out for contracts ’ on February 11 is the title of a report which notes that ‘ British engineers say US project managers traditionally prefer to operate with other US companies . ’ |
| 2 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 3 | In regga a producer frequently utilises the same backing track for several different vocals , but only Steely & Clevie would dare let them all play at once on a dub , allowing several different melodies to fight it out for dominance of a different rhythm . |
| 4 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |
| 5 | A mechanic friend at Merpati Airlines picked it up for us . |
| 6 | The two head office teams battled it out for the top spot , but it was no surprise to see , a Bolton Sailing Club member along with his father , steer his craft over the line first . |
| 7 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 8 | Other teachers got it in for me because my brother went there before me … |
| 9 | The data is then made public ; the full dataset and the commands to set it up for processing by the statistical package SPSS- X can be obtained from the Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex for the cost of processing . |
| 10 | CROAT and government forces slugged it out for parts of central and southwestern Bosnia yesterday , sending waves of bedraggled Muslim refugees fleeing eastward . |
| 11 | What a load of bull … the bidders fight it out for the best of British beef . |