Example sentences of "it [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we had it for the weekend once |
| 2 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll need it for the bike when we arrive . |
| 4 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
| 5 | I know we got a mention in it for the museum and that was , oh did you get your keepsake ? |
| 6 | they were having one here as well and erm they booked it for the day and they were staying there overnight , cos they were , they 've got a house and they were gon na let guests stay at their house and while they stayed up there and then |
| 7 | Let it for the Summer and Autumn . |
| 8 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 9 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 10 | Hard work , but worth it for the feeling that you might be helping producers to realise that there is a discerning market out there , and not one that reacts blindly to the word ‘ organic ’ . |
| 11 | bought it for the dog and about fifty quid of it altogether |
| 12 | I think Leeds have blown it for the league and there are sadly only one winners . |
| 13 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 14 | What I really want is to meet someone who I can have a bit of fun with , but who is in it for the pleasure and does n't want paying . |
| 15 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 16 | Because if we 're going to use it for the ragtime and er |
| 17 | Save it for the garden or the great outdoors . |
| 18 | What was it about the setup that you 'd be most critical of ? |
| 19 | And what is it about the cat that is the specific trigger for the irrational panics ? |
| 20 | What was it about the man that set her every nerve on edge , made her tingle with an unfortunate awareness of him ? |
| 21 | What was it about the name that made them want to funk on down and start praising the Lord ? |
| 22 | What was it about the station that was so fascinating ? |
| 23 | The memory of Nancy brings me back to the question that occupied me so much , what was it about the Centre that could transform misery , bitterness and hatred into love and hope , and possibly even happiness , all in the space of fourteen days ? |
| 24 | ‘ What was it about the report that you found so interesting , for future reference ? ’ |
| 25 | If it is indeed the loosening of control over associative thought — Woolf 's ‘ Wings in the Head ’ — that is the basic mechanism responsible for autism then the question arises : what is it about the mind that modulates this process , allowing it some free rein , though being capable on occasions of going badly awry , leading to psychosis ? |
| 26 | In principle , though I think it 's very difficult , as I understand it right now , you 've got to go through a rather unfriendly session of training the computer to respond to your voice , and if you say something in a slightly different way later on it may not recognize it as the word that you had previously trained it on . |
| 27 | The Conservative Party is as short of it as the Exchequer or the rest of us . |
| 28 | But even the refusal to talk about it , as Michel Foucault has noted , marks it as the secret and puts it at the heart of discourse . |
| 29 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 30 | Thus it is often convenient to treat it as the claim that no complex synonym can be provided which brings out the meaning of ‘ good ’ as say ‘ parent 's brother ’ brings out the meaning of ‘ uncle ’ . |