Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
| 2 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 3 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 4 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 5 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 6 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 7 | But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off . |
| 8 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 9 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 10 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 11 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 12 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 13 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 14 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
| 15 | Skill is also required to arrange it for a particular choir , group or instruments . |
| 16 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 17 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 18 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 19 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 20 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 21 | The water for drinking they used to collect from the gutters and erm it used to go into big barrels and then they used to boil it for a long while . |