Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know we got a mention in it for the museum and that was , oh did you get your keepsake ? |
| 2 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 3 | Perhaps a crewman stumbles , it could be the gloop is n't hot enough , maybe there is n't enough pepper in it for the cook 's liking . |
| 4 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 5 | He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks . |
| 6 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 7 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 8 | Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . |
| 9 | The syllabus for modern languages in the GCSE is very full ; but there is no place in it for the teaching of grammar . |
| 10 | There was no salvation outside the church and no place within it for the deviant . |
| 11 | Private court patronage was not just a reserve of employment for members of a political interest , however , for there was danger in it for the patron . |
| 12 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 13 | Panyi island , where Sapan and Strawberry lived , had only enough room on it for the mosque . |
| 14 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 15 | This was not the rich pap of the commercial world and there was little money in it for the artists . |
| 16 | He wondered if his outlook would change , or if this was going to be the pattern of it for the future . |
| 17 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 18 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 19 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 20 | But that may happen to you anywhere , if there is any profit in it for the criminal . ’ |
| 21 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 22 | The Japanese are now taking over the manufacture of the machines as you can imagine , and so that 's the end of it for the , the |
| 23 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 24 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 25 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
| 26 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 27 | A company is treated as an associated undertaking when the group holds a substantial interest in it for the long term , and exercises a significant influence over its operating and financial policy decisions . |