Example sentences of "it [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cusworth , England 's former stand-off who still turns it on for the Tigers , leaves for a fortnight 's holiday next week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You can put one on them we 've converse for the , put it on for the evening |
| 5 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 6 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | but Pauline must of remembered it perhaps for the |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You have rather got it in for the doctor , have n't you ? ’ said Henry easily . |
| 13 | The weather God had it in for the night patrol . |
| 14 | There was er she said , Blue Peter , and they should have put it in because they 've got it in for the kids . |
| 15 | But you can get it in For the first time at any age . |
| 16 | But if we do n't get a good response to this I might stick it in for the day in The Post . |
| 17 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 18 | On application they literally digest smells by producing enzymes which attack the source of the odour , breaking it down for the bacteria to absorb . |
| 19 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 20 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 21 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 22 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 23 | She wrote , The Love and Lives of the She Devil , and she 's written it , she wrote it especially for The Orange Tree Theatre about ten years ago , and now she 's re-doing it , |
| 24 | More than half did it just for the thrill of sex with someone new . |
| 25 | Treat the family and serve it with your favourite meats and salads — do n't save it just for the turkey ! |
| 26 | What 's more , Bishop is n't in it just for the money , he wants to see some blood spilt — even that of his friends … |
| 27 | I could n't motivate myself to do it just for the sake of it . |
| 28 | Leon threw the ball high , running for it himself and falling to catch it just for the pleasure of movement in sunshine . |
| 29 | Most of them are in it just for the bylines and the booze , you know . |
| 30 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |