Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
2 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
3 | At least it provided somewhere for Lucien to anchor his attention . |
4 | In fact , it seemed so for several months . |
5 | It climbed steeply for some moments and then hung , apparently motionless , like a miniature sun above the sepoy encampment . |
6 | No one knew how the Lāmri god acquired his reputation for treating mad dogs , but it dated back for several generations . |
7 | So while d'Abreu and his colleagues went off eastwards , even braver or more foolhardy men — following the banner of Castile — were determined to discover — heroically and , as it turned out for many of them , fatally — the way to reach this same Orient by travelling outwards to the West , across the vast unknown . |
8 | It started early for some with a trip to just north of the Scottish border to practise demolition techniques . |
9 | So popular was this concert that there was no admission charge , only a collection , as it went on for two evenings , but strangely enough , David did n't offer to take part , although George Underwood did and he had a very popular group called George and the Dragons at the time . |
10 | So it went on for two long hours during which the thousands present learned nothing about Fascism except the bravery and pertinacity of its young adherents in dealing with this very perilous situation . " |
11 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
12 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
13 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
14 | I hope it went well for Dimitri Dimitrovitch . ’ |
15 | Then on it went inexorably for another sixty-five minutes … |
16 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
17 | It did so for one day on 5 October 1990 , on the announcement of the application for UK entry into the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) . |
18 | It voted overwhelmingly for continued membership of the USSR in the March 1991 referendum , and elected its own president . |
19 | And it was such an obvious explanation that she ought to have thought of it herself , but for some reason it had never for one moment crossed her mind . |
20 | In desperation , it searched around for additional incentives . |