Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quarry site 's owners ARC have sought a court order to evoct the travellers from the site later this week , but by this evening it looked for most of them as thought the party was over anyway . |
| 2 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 3 | A black , beady eye caught the light as it moved on short , powerful legs and toes , and as it crossed the clearing it paused for one brief moment to utter a shrill and prolonged , ‘ Kee … wee … | . ’ |
| 4 | ACCIDENT & General has confirmed that the rate it quoted for last week 's travel insurance table which appeared on page 23 of the Money-Go-Round section of the newspaper should have been £17.90 for a two-week holiday in Europe rather than £14.70 . |
| 5 | For a week it rained for several hours each day . |
| 6 | This afternoon it poured for two hours solid . |
| 7 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 8 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 9 | Last year it budgeted for 200,000 new motor policies in 1992 . |
| 10 | What specifically seems to have worried the Russians most about the Marshall Plan was the temptation it represented for eastern European states . |