Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you wo n't be stuck in your bag of ‘ defending ’ the underground ; like the man said , let's make it for the hell of it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |
| 3 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 4 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 5 | But if they nevertheless persist in making that perambulation in the manner aforesaid , we must endure it for the present , and await an opportune time to amend it . |
| 6 | We must express it for the world to see and to believe . |
| 7 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll need it for the bike when we arrive . |
| 9 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll date it for the day after tomorrow , if that 's OK ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 12 | After his triumph , Benn said : ‘ I do n't want to fight Eubank because I do n't like him but I 'll take it for the million he was asking for . ’ |
| 13 | Jim 'll Fix It For The Boys |
| 14 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 15 | John wo n't mind , let's keep it for the night , and take it back tomorrow morning . |
| 16 | We now have a a piece of land which we ca n't use for fox hunting , so let's use it for the purpose it was bought for , use it for the fire station . |
| 17 | Well , let's believe it for the moment , because it makes love 's triumph the greater . |
| 18 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 19 | If I had a kid , I 'd maroon it for the afternoon , on a lilo anchored several feet away with waterproof crayons and wax paper to draw on . |
| 20 | I started playing when I was seven , so by the time The Stones happened it was not difficult for me to play , so I could appreciate it for the music alone . |
| 21 | And I rang them and see if I could cancel it for the Monday and he only , the doctor does n't sit on the Monday , so I 've got |
| 22 | So that they could get it for the turn of the new leaf of the quarter . |
| 23 | Let's hear it for the fans |
| 24 | So let's hear it for the Department of Education and Science . |
| 25 | Let's hear it for the farmer . |
| 26 | So let's hear it for the greatest tennis player in the world ! |
| 27 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 28 | Let's hear it for the Committee |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being . |
| 30 | Well that 's alright , we need it we shall need it for the |