Example sentences of "it [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the track meets a road turn left and go along it for 150yds until you come to a bridge made of railway sleepers which crosses the stream on the right . |
| 2 | ‘ A part of your father 's gift I think you have , if you can learn not to deface it for spite because I am in the same world with you . ’ |
| 3 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 4 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 5 | Being totally exposed , the rabbits hightail it for home and , broad daylight or not , run headlong into the nets . |
| 6 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 7 | He said the Kenton Road unit was vital to the 30 adults who have regularly relied on it for help since it began as a pilot project two years ago . |
| 8 | This is a pretty odd combination if you think about it for dormice and hares do not really talk and so would not be able to talk to the mad hatter , a human . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |
| 10 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 11 | He examined it for blotches and blemishes , and subjected any irregularities to the most rigorous scrutiny . |
| 12 | Rhino horn as a homeopathic rheumatism cure is all the rage in the East ( and some nearer to us here like to use it for adornment as dagger handles ) and the cost of collecting this cure was infinitesimal compared to the poacher 's gain — so the black and wide-lipped rhino are threatened . |
| 13 | But I ca n't help feeling that this is strictly a US product and that no attempt has been made to localize it for UK or European markets . |
| 14 | She offered to do it for Simon and he thought it was a good idea but er he never quite got around to doing it . |
| 15 | and you 're calling it for ages but you ca n't go near it cos it will run away and it goes like this to you , it goes |
| 16 | I mean we 've always got drink in the house and s and occasionally we 'll have a drink at night but sometimes we just do n't touch it for ages unless anyone comes round . |
| 17 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 18 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 19 | We looked at it for ages when it was dead . |
| 20 | I did n't see it for ages because I was too busy sticking an old rotten fence-post out through the slits in the pillbox , pretending it was a gun and firing at imaginary ships . |
| 21 | Okay , and I 've got like one other spare so do you wan na keep it for Jed and also ? |
| 22 | I do n't know if I did it for Dad or Dad did it for me . |
| 23 | We done it for Kerry and done it for her , Kerry left home sorted all the house out and bought all the stuff back and give the rest away ! |
| 24 | I shall repeat it as he works it for adults and then suggest how it might be adapted for children . |
| 25 | The current holder of the bill will present it for payment and all being well receive the full value . |
| 26 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 27 | We also use it for consultations of use it for Broxstowe and Radford . |
| 28 | Another major benefit of the centres is that local countryside groups can use it for meetings and displays . |
| 29 | I went to the Bluecoat School in Walsall and they erm they used to run a A T C wing in there which later to belonged to and they they brought this Hawker Demon in , which was a plane into the playground for the instruction of the A T C fellas and the kids all ripped the canvas off it for souvenirs and it was down to a skeleton in no time |
| 30 | They 'll keep it for Crunchie but never use it for anything else again because they 've had so much trouble with it . |