Example sentences of "it for its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 2 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 3 | If I remember rightly it was called ‘ My Kitchen Window ’ and I liked it for its succinct simplicity and the fact that it rang true . |
| 4 | She cleared her throat , damning it for its sudden huskiness . |
| 5 | Noreen had a small voice and relied on people listening to it for its full effect . |
| 6 | Hated it for its bleak isolation and petty preoccupation with the work of fences and confinement . |
| 7 | While electoral democracy is spreading across Europe ( and the world ) , why does Britain restrict it for its own citizens ? |
| 8 | It should be collected primarily because government needs it for its own businesses . ’ |
| 9 | Where Ken wanted to jolly the world along , Bernard wanted to push it and shove it for its own good . |
| 10 | Essentially I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas and I 'm not interested in it for its own sake . |
| 11 | Addictive use of any substance or behaviour is seen when the individual uses it in appropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions Or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood rather than simply using it for its own sake . |
| 12 | Anyone who indulged in it for its own sake was an out-and-out sinner — and that went for the resulting offspring , too . ’ |
| 13 | Cézanne liked it for its fierce romanticism . |
| 14 | Watch it for its parched melancholia : watch it for the fantastic innards-eaten Erich von Stroheim ; watch it and spot which tiny , yet central , image Spielberg nicked from it for ET . |