Example sentences of "it [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without fail I walk in the house and it goes for me ankles . |
| 2 | It asked for their support in getting the law changed , and the guidelines strengthened by law . |
| 3 | Under fire from referees for his comments as a defence witness at Salisbury Crown Court last week , Kelly retorted : ‘ When someone is facing a prison sentence and all the immediate trauma that it involves for his family , I believe the sensitivities of referees should come second rather than first . ’ |
| 4 | No matter how hard the Provincial champions tried to eat into the massive margin the worse it became for them . |
| 5 | ‘ It thinks for itself . |
| 6 | Except in those countries such as Ireland , Greece and Portugal , where the benefits of Federalism are largely measured in terms of the largesse it produces for them , greater comprehension of what is going on has brought growing anxiety about it . |
| 7 | By virtue of the Immigration ( Hotel Records ) Order 1972 all guests over the age of sixteen are required upon arrival at a hotel to register their full name and nationality , or have it registered for them . |
| 8 | Laura , knowing how much this vehicle meant to Bernard , had a miniature of it made for her husband , which he kept in his office . |
| 9 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 10 | He had executed in public deserters from his battalion when it fought for its life on the Basra to Baghdad road . |
| 11 | ‘ Is it permitted for me to call you Cara ? ’ he enquired , having just asked that she use his first name . |
| 12 | As the eldest son , Father shortened his education — or had it shortened for him — and went to help in the family business . |
| 13 | These and many other such instances , however , are mainly cases where , although the constitution forbade the enactment of the law in question by that legislature or process , it provided for it to be enacted in some other way , e.g. by constitutional amendment . |
| 14 | Does it count for nothing that Romania , according to her own claims , has repaid her entire hard currency debt and made future borrowing from the West illegal ? |
| 15 | ‘ Does it count for nothing ? ’ |
| 16 | which sounds as if parentage counts , but not to the point where it counts for everything . |
| 17 | If it does not stand as a moral example to the followers of the Church , it counts for nothing . |
| 18 | Except that money , in Darcy 's Utopia , will count for nothing : just as it counts for nothing in Moscow today : where pockets are stuffed with roubles but there is nothing to buy . |
| 19 | ‘ But at the end of the day you have to go out and prove yourself , or else it counts for nothing , especially in a hurling mad county like Kilkenny . |
| 20 | In the world of trade and realpolitik , it counts for nothing . |
| 21 | I wonder if it counts for anything at all when it comes to expressing more profound thought . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't you get it fixed for me ? ’ |
| 23 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 24 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 25 | Now accepted in common parlance , it stands for What You See Is What You Get , the implication being that the image you see on the screen will be exactly that which you get on the page . |
| 26 | With its assertion of militarism , voluntarism and adventurism , it stands for everything that orthodox Marxists in Latin America had been arguing against for years . |
| 27 | In reality , of course , it stands for something a whole lot less fierce-sounding — simply one 's partner in life . |
| 28 | I think you have to see what the system is and then see how you get it to work for yourself . |
| 29 | If we can not beat the system , how can we get it to work for us ? |
| 30 | Put it to work for you . |