Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 2 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 3 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 4 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 5 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 6 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 9 | This means that you can perform operations on it , such as scanning it for the particular information you want . |
| 10 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 11 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 12 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 13 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 14 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 15 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 16 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 17 | Revisiting it for the first time , he recalls his high hopes when an angel with marketing skills appeared . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 20 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 21 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 22 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 23 | He moved round and joined them and stared intently at the portrait as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 24 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 25 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 26 | Sam looked at the revolver as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 27 | Charles found he was watching much of the play as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 28 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 29 | If the patina chemical is too strong , dilute with a little water and , if using it for the first time , do a test on a sample piece of copper . |
| 30 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |