Example sentences of "[vb past] it for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
2 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
3 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
4 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
5 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
6 | To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm . |
7 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
8 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
9 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
10 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
11 | I wore it for one year and that |
12 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
13 | We have cut out the instructions and kept it for next time . |
14 | They all took it for white wine and discovered their mistake . |
15 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
16 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
17 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
18 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
19 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
20 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
21 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
22 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
23 | Trod it for thirty year , |
24 | but that , as I say for England and France erm they closed it for some reason |