Example sentences of "it [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 2 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 3 | But when you want to heat the bedrooms up you ca n't , unless you only have it on for a bit you know . |
| 4 | Leave it on for a year you 'll get a bill . |
| 5 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 6 | Cusworth , England 's former stand-off who still turns it on for the Tigers , leaves for a fortnight 's holiday next week . |
| 7 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |
| 8 | Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home . |
| 9 | You can put one on them we 've converse for the , put it on for the evening |
| 10 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 11 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 12 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 13 | He saw it only for a second . |
| 14 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 15 | And anyhow , it was still deception , be it only for a minute . |
| 16 | However , the party did not follow this line ; otherwise they would have opposed independence for the more advanced Poland , Finland , the Baltic States and the Ukraine , and supported it only for the more backward minorities . |
| 17 | Members of these covens are usually ‘ nominal ’ witches who pay only lip-service to the dogmas and are interested in it only for the kicks it provides . |
| 18 | Marx also believed that the day of Christianity was already past : it really belonged to an earlier , feudal pattern of society , and had been undermined beyond hope of recovery by the emergence of the bourgeois culture , which had already passed beyond it , and appeared to maintain it only for the most cynical of purposes . |
| 19 | but Pauline must of remembered it perhaps for the |
| 20 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 21 | Indeed , the proposed development has been thrown into doubt with the Secretary of State 's decision to call it in for a public inquiry following representations from environmental pressure groups objecting to the scheme 's architectural quality . |
| 22 | But Pearce , says : ‘ I just ca n't see him packing it in for a younger man to come in . |
| 23 | Fit your car with a catalytic converter , if possible , or trade it in for a new model — cars made after 1993 must have them . |
| 24 | So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed . |
| 25 | What you did was to save the lot up and cash it in for a big meal . |
| 26 | At the end of the two years purchasers can either trade it in for a new car , pay the final payment and keep the car , or hand the car back and have nothing further to pay . |
| 27 | Now at the beginning of the year , I have no idea how this particular week in November is going to pan out , so I ca n't put it in for a specific day , but I put it in on the Sunday , because it 's specific to that week . |
| 28 | Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake . |
| 29 | Give it a chance to warm up , we need n't put it in for a bit . |
| 30 | ‘ You have rather got it in for the doctor , have n't you ? ’ said Henry easily . |