Example sentences of "and it [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 2 | The rear wall of the churchyard loomed ahead of the figure and it sprang for the top . |
| 3 | And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law . |
| 4 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 5 | She took the package and it lay for a moment in her lap while she stared down at it . |
| 6 | But overall , the report says more information 's needed and it calls for a careful record to be kept of all future suicides and attempts . |
| 7 | This exception is directed at rationalizing the British Leyland case and it allows for the fact that persons who buy items of equipment may need replacement parts in time and should be able to obtain spare parts in a free market at reasonable cost . |
| 8 | It draws people who come for a fun day out and it provides for the serious ornithologist . |
| 9 | It warned , however , that close surveillance of the border would continue , and it called for the creation of a " security zone " 5 km wide inside Iraq . |
| 10 | And it seems for the churches we 'd then be looking up to point forty perc , fourteen percent for fifty thousand pounds . |
| 11 | Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence . |
| 12 | In a diagram : There is a significant distinction in meaning between the two nevertheless , and it accounts for the use of the bare infinitive with the former . |