Example sentences of "to it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 2 | I soon noticed myself rapidly approaching a fallen tree over the surface of the river and as I rushed towards it I clung on to it for dear life . |
| 3 | But then even if they do that and even if they get the franchise , they 're not going to be able to say , we can now hold on to it for five , or seven , years , however long the franchise is going to be , because if another bidder comes along in the meantime and says , we rather like this ourselves , they 'll be thrown off . |
| 4 | The Hungerfords of Farleigh Hungerford , the all-powerful local family in medieval times , bought Iford , which was then a mill , in 1369 and held on to it for four centuries . |
| 5 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 6 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 7 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 8 | I think it was a very good school for its time , and I am deeply indebted to it for all I learned , but it was , I consider now , very strict . |
| 9 | Keep this manual by you when using LIFESPAN and refer to it for specific and detailed information on particular facilities |
| 10 | We also learnt quite a lot as to how we should do it next time , so when we now to it for senior managers erm come April May time er and hopefully that er training will be improved on the benefit going through . |
| 11 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 12 | Even where such material is not incorporated by reference apparently reference may still be made to it for contextual or confirmatory purposes . |
| 13 | People looking to it for educational use , or a big company HQ . |
| 14 | The official table of appointments in 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which lasted until it was slightly modified by Catherine 's son Paul in 1800 , provided for each mission abroad to have two students regularly attached to it for these purposes . |
| 15 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 16 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 17 | But she took a dislike to it for some reason , she would n't go in it . |
| 18 | He 's also preparing an interim guide to it for imminent launch . |
| 19 | By the next season 1923–24 , the outside-right position was Harry 's own — and he held on to it for another decade . |
| 20 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |