Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 2 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |
| 3 | But there is little likelihood of them giving home advantage to Garvey who have gone 32 games without defeat in the competition and need to win it for a record sixth time on the trot to reach Europe next year . |
| 4 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 5 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 6 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 7 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 8 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 9 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 10 | The school was having trouble with leaks in their stainless steel hydrotherapy pool which resulted in the children being unable to use it for a number of weeks . |
| 11 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 12 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 13 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 14 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 15 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 16 | A silver cup , purchased by subscription the following year , was to be competed for annually , the winning captain to hold it for a year . |
| 17 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 18 | She wanted to savour it for a moment . |
| 19 | You 've to watch it for a maximum of three minutes you dad says . |
| 20 | I would like you to wear it for a while . ’ |
| 21 | Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight |
| 22 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 23 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 24 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 25 | Well I 'll I 'll fax it first thing in the morning on Monday right or somebody will so you can get it y'know we just need to monitor it for a week and that 's it . |
| 26 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 27 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 28 | I 'd like to take it for a spin . |
| 29 | She was lying in a freezing ditch , still with her pet dog , four days after she left home to take it for a walk . |
| 30 | Her mum says we 'd be welcome to rent it for a couple of weeks . |