Example sentences of "to it for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Can I hang on to it for a while ? ’ |
| 2 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 3 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 4 | Both men listened to it for a moment , then Duclos stood up restlessly and walked over to his gramophone . |
| 5 | She stood stroking the animal and murmuring to it for a moment longer before glancing around the hut . |
| 6 | Should we look to it for a pool of inventive talent that actively embodied novelty in its products , and thereby provided pressure for technical change among its customers ; or rather , for provision of engineering skills that responded passively to the demands made upon it by the inventiveness of its clients consumer industries and civil engineers ? |