Example sentences of "it [verb] for a [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 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 . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It provided for a separation of powers , the establishment of a constitutional court and the holding of direct presidential elections . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It stopped for a piss . |
| 20 | It stopped for a moment , then went quietly into the long grass and disappeared for ever . |
| 21 | When an image hits the retina of the eye , it lingers for a fraction of a second . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 24 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 25 | JA II impresses first with how tiny it looks for a car with such a monstrous reputation , second for the sheer physical intensity of the power when the Ford V8 crashes into life . |
| 26 | It sank for a moment , then rose again , and Alexei saw Jotan raise his eyebrows . |
| 27 | If only it holds for a while . ’ |
| 28 | It allows for a variety of views on how alike , or unalike , human beings are in their particularities , in particular what is the significance of the difference of sex between men and women . |
| 29 | It allows for a multiplicity of different causes acting in different combinations on different people in different situations ( it even allows that every particular criminal act may result from a unique constellation of antecedent causes ) . |
| 30 | The value of Black 's theory lies in the fact that it allows for a conception of metaphor as the interaction between two discourses , but like Goodman 's concept of imperial appropriation , it has overtones of subjugation . |