Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 They were apprehensive about opening it and sent for the Bomb Squad .
2 If they ca n't be resolved then agree on the amount of the problem involved , isolate it and ask for the payment of any uncontested balance .
3 Maurin , who had been longing for an excuse to escape , said he would go himself to attend to it and made for the door .
4 Chesarynth sensed it and realized for the first time that what she was hearing was nothing but verbally-trimmed ideas .
5 I vote we walk into it and look for the summit under the water . ’
6 Life in Looe today is largely governed by two seasons ; the tourist season and the season spent recovering from it and preparing for the next .
7 She takes it and makes for the phone box .
8 Mrs. Carlill saw the advertisement , purchased a smoke ball , used it as instructed for the specified period and nevertheless caught ‘ flu .
9 In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality .
10 They perceive it as standing for the interest of society as a whole , and are constrained by this ideological view to tolerate its infringements of their sectarian interests , providing that these are not too severe .
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