Example sentences of "it [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My records nee go it it plays for a bit , then it goes brurgh ! |
| 2 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
| 3 | She is thinking of her new novel ( ‘ Letting it germinate for a period ’ ) and seems very busy and hungry . |
| 4 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 5 | It fluttered for a moment and then folded right back against the fuselage , like a roosting bird . |
| 6 | wait a minute , we 'll leave that in there we 'll let it go out , see how it goes for a couple of months , Glen will know where we can use any money for that anyway for a couple of months |
| 7 | He hesitated only briefly before he said , ‘ Because it asked for a reservation I have no wish to make . |
| 8 | Mick began , then paused where it asked for the name of the vehicle 's owner . |
| 9 | Since the death of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936 , the company has been wholly owned by the Wellcome Trust , a registered charity which distributes all profits it receives for the support of medical and allied research in universities and hospitals throughout the world . |
| 10 | Spread out the seaweed into the shape in which it is to be pressed while still in the water , then slowly lift it out of the basin , keeping it flat , let it drip for a while and then place it on a waterproof surface . |
| 11 | Rye stood out from most other towns in that it became for a while a Puritan ‘ Common Wealth ’ , a centre of social experiment and rigorous public morality under its two vicars , Joseph Beeton and his successor John Allen . |
| 12 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 13 | ( In Henry VIII 's reign , the great Dutch scholar Erasmus was given the benefice of Aldington in Kent and had it commuted for a pension of £20 , charged on the living . ) |
| 14 | It argued for a policy of " managed retreat " , using natural rather than man-made defences , with nature conservation brought into the heart of shoreline defence policy . |
| 15 | It provided for a ban on imports of ozone-gobbling chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , of products containing CFCs , and of products which used CFCs in their manufacturing process . |
| 16 | Instead of the elections earlier promised for April 1990 , it provided for a loya jirga or grand assembly of over 2,000 members ( 10 from each of 216 districts in Afghanistan plus 15 from each of the seven groups based in Peshawar , either elected or chosen by local councils ) which would select first a new government and parliament . |
| 17 | It provided for a separation of powers , the establishment of a constitutional court and the holding of direct presidential elections . |
| 18 | It provided for a record deficit of 185,340,000 million forint ( US$2,260 million ) , representing just under 6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and slightly less than the deficit expected for 1992 . |
| 19 | It provided for a cut in the top rate of income tax from 68 to 52 per cent , a cut in corporation tax from 50 to 35 per cent ( later amended to 40 per cent ) , and a range of cuts in excise duties on consumer goods . |
| 20 | It provided for an executive President and a bicameral National Assembly , the lower house of which would be elected for a five-year term , with the upper house being partly elected and partly appointed . |
| 21 | The first agreement of its kind to be concluded by the CIS with a former Warsaw Pact country , it provided for the sale of real estate belonging to the former Soviet army in Czechoslovakia and for the use of the proceeds to make good the environmental damage done on those sites as well as to pay for the housing of returning soldiers in Russia . |
| 22 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 23 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 24 | Basically it provided for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered through the NHS under the central direction of the Minister of Health . |
| 25 | During this period it provided for the suspension of government subsidies to industry and industrial promotion benefits ( a form of tax relief to companies in the interior ) , and for a halt to subsidies to provincial administrations . |
| 26 | ‘ It stopped for a piss . |
| 27 | It stopped for a moment , then went quietly into the long grass and disappeared for ever . |
| 28 | When an image hits the retina of the eye , it lingers for a fraction of a second . |
| 29 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |
| 30 | I mean , you know , if you see an advert in the paper that tells you that every fifty pence you spend is going to save a child 's life by providing it with Diralite or providing it with food that it needs for a money , or something like that , I mean how can you justify keeping any fifty pences at all yourself ? |