Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 2 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 3 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 4 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 5 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 6 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 7 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 8 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 9 | ‘ I only stole it for the wire , ’ she said , ‘ but now we 've got it I suppose we might as well drink it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 11 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 12 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 13 | Th we must be able to learn from this period , particularly a partial austerity mm but these events are sound events in themselves and that we 're not just doing it for the sake of the sponsor or attracting a sponsor and that it 's not , in itself , completely necessary to have a sponsor otherwise the competition would n't exist . |
| 14 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 15 | Just doing it for the week . |
| 16 | Yes , oh aye , aye , just use it for the month Charlie and then , and then in the bucket , do n't keep using it after that . |
| 17 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 18 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 19 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 20 | It is said that there is a spell within the music , and that they always spin it for the true heir , and that it protects that heir throughout his life . |
| 21 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 22 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
| 23 | No I really got it for the er card holder . |
| 24 | And were the Brodskys simply slumming it for the sake of a little pop action ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 27 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 28 | One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France . |
| 29 | Further , when you 've inspected the directory you have to remember the name and then re-type it for the Load command . |
| 30 | If the Secretary of State is able to give an honest answer at the Dispatch Box , will he tell us that if he genuinely surveys the objections and sees that the vast majority of the people of Ayrshire object to opting out , he will give democratic and fair-minded consideration to the consultative process and , at best , abandon the idea of opting out or at least postpone it for the foreseeable future ? |