Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [art] [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 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 3 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 4 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 5 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 6 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off . |
| 13 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 14 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 15 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 18 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 22 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Skill is also required to arrange it for a particular choir , group or instruments . |