Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our trade expert , John Coates , hazards that the trade might only be willing to pay £12,500 in the hope of retailing it for £15,500 . |
| 2 | Cos you 've got to pay the agent a fee for finding it for you . |
| 3 | Mm , mm , you see , cos even if we sort of made it for like the middle of next week , er , no not next week , the week after |
| 4 | Because what 's the point in doing no matter how good you think you 're doing , what 's the point of doing it for yourself in the living room , you want er everybody to listen to it . |
| 5 | Finally , one other began to use heroin almost by default in that he and a friend bought heroin with the specific aim of selling it for a profit . |
| 6 | What these critics apparently ca n't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others . |
| 7 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 8 | With modern-day technology it is getting harder to achieve all the time , but there is one common denominator in the case of Eric Liddell and Allan Wells , and that is the fierce determination to win and the intense pride of doing it for Scotland . |
| 9 | Three days ago she had refused her final chance of giving it for love . |
| 10 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 11 | Despite their criticism , peer review is the method most commonly used within the Research Councils for evaluating the scientific contributions of their own staff , in addition to using it for the evaluation of research proposals . |
| 12 | Always flatten angelica with the blade of a knife before using it for decoration . |
| 13 | When you have n't got no one , you have to , sort of like find a way of doing it for yourself and it 's much harder . |
| 14 | It is , therefore , impossible to isolate such a unit for the purpose of testing it for ‘ closed ’ or ‘ open ’ minds or for ‘ reinterpretation ’ as opposed to ‘ readjustment of belief . |
| 15 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 16 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 17 | Security was tight at yesterday 's ceremony , with press photographs banned and a single TV cameraman shepherded around by two naval security officers , who had to view his film before releasing it for public consumption . |
| 18 | World champion , and well on the way to winning it for a second time . |
| 19 | " There 's a regulation about using it for private matters . " |
| 20 | Now that the legal framework for the rest of the century appears to have been set attention can be given to the task of interpreting it for governors . |
| 21 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 22 | While BT has the right to terminate the deal between years three and six , it also has the option of extending it for a further three years . |
| 23 | Their two-year project initially involves the implementation of software on a massively parallel Single Instruction , Multiple Data system , with a view to converting it for Multiple Instruction , Multiple Data systems at a later date . |
| 24 | We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’ |
| 25 | Over the years various attempts will have been made to insulate houses like these , but these are unlikely to match modern standards , and it will pay you to check out your existing level of insulation , with a view to improving it for the future . |