Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 2 | Its death had been postponed , which had enabled the Hunt Ball Committee to hire it for the triumphant last appearance of a house that had outlived its glamour , and all kind importances . |
| 3 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 4 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 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 they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 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 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 13 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 14 | it finishes on the eighteen so I 'll have to book it for the previous Friday so Harry says oh that 's great it 'll be my birthday too . |
| 15 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The tower soon became part of the landscape , so much so , that Berners donned his artist 's hat to paint it for the local shell guide . |
| 18 | Skill is also required to arrange it for a particular choir , group or instruments . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 21 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 22 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 23 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 24 | Part of the LEATGS grant might for example , be delegated for schools to administer , but they would have to spend it for the specified purpose of in-service training . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |