Example sentences of "it [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |
| 2 | You can put one on them we 've converse for the , put it on for the evening |
| 3 | But if we do n't get a good response to this I might stick it in for the day in The Post . |
| 4 | The weather God had it in for the night patrol . |
| 5 | ‘ You have rather got it in for the doctor , have n't you ? ’ said Henry easily . |
| 6 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 7 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Unlike some he is prepared to work hard and is not in it just for the glory . |
| 9 | More than half did it just for the thrill of sex with someone new . |
| 10 | You did it just for the delight of fishing . ’ |
| 11 | Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading . |
| 12 | What 's more , Bishop is n't in it just for the money , he wants to see some blood spilt — even that of his friends … |
| 13 | Treat the family and serve it with your favourite meats and salads — do n't save it just for the turkey ! |
| 14 | Do n't have it just for the thing that 's free inside . |
| 15 | I could n't motivate myself to do it just for the sake of it . |
| 16 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 17 | Leon threw the ball high , running for it himself and falling to catch it just for the pleasure of movement in sunshine . |
| 18 | A similar decision would have come from the White House by now were it not for the delay in finding a defence secretary . |
| 19 | However , I would not be here were it not for the Certificate which I shall outline briefly to you . |
| 20 | This long experience , monopoly position and continued popularity might have engendered an element of complacency were it not for the enthusiasm and dynamism of the teaching team assisted by the advice and encouragement of industry representatives . |
| 21 | The druidical temple which Johnson saw would have proved extremely difficult for me to find , were it not for the presence in Strichen of one of the most useful guiding systems on earth — a group of local schoolboys idling on their bicycles . |
| 22 | We would not be mentioning that event in these pages were it not for the misspelling of his name — something confused with a food mixer . |
| 23 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 24 | This might plausibly be dismissed as ‘ Victorian stupidity ’ were it not for the tact that in Britain in 1988 a similar view was actually inscribed in law . |
| 25 | It is our understanding that were it not for the contact that was made by the state lottery with Scientific Games , that they would be a bidder , the Scientific Games system is a good system . |
| 26 | Were it not for the support of sympathetic friends , the residents in our Homes and those who work in our factory could not be given the necessary help and encouragement to overcome their handicap , for we are dependent on voluntary help . |
| 27 | Yet chemists would guess , were it not for the evidence of their own senses , that a material containing two hydrogen atoms and one of oxygen in each of its molecules should be a gas at Earthly temperatures — like carbon dioxide , with one atom of carbon and two of oxygen , or nitrogen dioxide , with two atoms of oxygen and one of nitrogen . |
| 28 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 29 | Mr. Collins 's letter to my constituent , which is extremely clear , states : ’ In the case of the rail link , there would have been no proposal to build a terminal , were it not for the need to provide one for the Channel Tunnel rail link . |
| 30 | Crocodiles can lose water at a rate of up to half of that of amphibians ( which have a much more permeable skin , and would greatly suffer from desiccation on land were it not for the safety valve of a reduced urine flow , which passes much of its water content back into the body ) . |