Example sentences of "[vb infin] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 2 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 3 | The birth his birthday was twenty four months , that means from when you can buy it for a new born baby or somebody up to two years old , will be suitable for it . |
| 4 | Please help us preserve it for the future generations . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | and very importantly is er , a list of instructions on how to use it , in order to erm , update it for the current month . |
| 7 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 8 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 9 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 10 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 11 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't believe it for a single moment , darling , ’ she repeated earnestly . |
| 13 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 14 | I think one of the problems is , that a lot of shoppers do n't realize that they 're entering into a contract and we do n't realize it for the simple reason that most people have , as soon as you hear the word contract you have a mental image of a legal document that you sign , do n't you ? |
| 15 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 16 | Though the supplier has no guarantee of the business , it has an advantage and , once it has the business , the firm can be fairly sure it will keep it for a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 18 | It makes a firmer fabric than an every needle rib , makes a double jacquard pattern shorter and truer to the actual pattern and , also , you can use it for the plain rows instead of the ‘ striper ’ card if you like the texture . |
| 19 | The tourist path , although free from hazards , is a weary treadmill , and active and experienced walkers can reserve it for a quick descent and adopt an alternative route by crossing the midway plateau and descending into the stony recesses of the Allt a' Mhuillinn by rounding the base of Castle Buttress . |
| 20 | well you could but you could n't sell it for a reasonable price . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ To be honest , I could n't even say when I 'm going to be back but I 've got to realistically think I wo n't make it for the European Cup . ’ |
| 24 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 25 | For a meal , and like , we were really keen to try this and everything , and we , we did n't , we sort of kept saying , oh shall we open this bottle tonight , and they said no , we 'll save it for a special occasion . |
| 26 | It can not be partly certain because the tenant can determine it at any time and partly uncertain because the landlord can not determine it for an uncertain period . |