Example sentences of "it [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It fluttered for a moment and then folded right back against the fuselage , like a roosting bird . |
| 3 | He hesitated only briefly before he said , ‘ Because it asked for a reservation I have no wish to make . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It provided for a separation of powers , the establishment of a constitutional court and the holding of direct presidential elections . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It stopped for a piss . |
| 14 | It stopped for a moment , then went quietly into the long grass and disappeared for ever . |
| 15 | It sank for a moment , then rose again , and Alexei saw Jotan raise his eyebrows . |
| 16 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 17 | According to Mr Hagger the company has lost many thousands of pounds because it paid for a loan that was not forthcoming . |
| 18 | It paid for a lot of education . |
| 19 | It hid for a moment behind a large , domed mausoleum before running past the gates of the Covenanter 's prison and through the archway leading to the rear of the graveyard . |
| 20 | It stuck for a moment and then we were outside . |
| 21 | Thereafter , the party made steady progress during the late 1930s as it campaigned for a policy of collective security against the threat of European fascism almost , it seemed , in the face of the complacency of Neville Chamberlain 's National government . |
| 22 | It vanished for a while , but then shone brightly at them as the car reached the top of the small hill and again they shielded their eyes to look at it like actors on a stage . |
| 23 | It called for a revision of the Prayer Book — and the bishops of that day had no idea how far this call would lead the Churches . |
| 24 | It called for a return to the sunnah and followed a tradition of Islamic resurgence in Egypt in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | It called for a celebration — a double celebration , really , she decided . |
| 26 | In particular , it called for a pension equal to ‘ a substantial percentage of the national average wage ’ and which should be increased annually in line with earnings or prices , whichever is the higher . |
| 27 | It called for a strengthening of trade associations after the war , with statutory power to fix prices and output levels . |
| 28 | It called for a spot of whisky . |
| 29 | Among a range of other measures , it called for a cut in carbon dioxide emissions of between 60 and 80 per cent by 2005 and a shift from the use of private cars to public transport and bicycles . |
| 30 | It called for an investigation of the charges by a " neutral international investigation committee " or the International Court of Justice . |