Example sentences of "it out for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In this constituency the other two parties are fighting it out for second place , ’ insists the 49-year-old former Bishop Auckland Grammar School head boy .
2 Try missing it out for two weeks and you will habituate to non-use .
3 And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) .
4 well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference
5 If you work it out for other relatives , the discrepancy gets even bigger .
6 Work it out for that one please .
7 So when we come across one that has reached its sixth , we must sit up , take notice and ask why market forces have singled it out for special success .
8 History may be cited as an example , not least because in the post-Falklands era several leading figures , including Sir Keith Joseph and Professor Hugh Thomas , have singled it out for special mention in connection with ‘ understanding the shared values which are a distinctive feature of British Society ’ .
9 In the thirtieth minute , Gary Weaving scored what looked like a perfectly good goal , only for the linesman to rule it out for offside , to everyone 's dismay .
10 Marx downed his glass in one gulp and absent-mindedly held it out for more .
11 I think there was one question I 'll I 'll root it out for next time erm and I was really stunned on it I might be okay on it now .
12 If they have committed the crimes they will face the sentences presumably , what 's the point in sticking it out for another two , three , four days ?
13 As mentioned , if you work it out for maternal erm for maternal cousins , for example the benefit turns out , has to be at least eight times .
14 There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them .
15 Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity .
16 The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is .
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