Example sentences of "to it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tower was never the property of the Jesuit Church as the town tenaciously held on to it for fire-watching . |
| 2 | The pressures on the CNAA as colleges showed interest in coming to it for validation were of various kinds . |
| 3 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 4 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 5 | Although the petitioners realised that it was government policies which were responsible for the impoverishment of the masses , the movement did not oppose government , it appealed to it for improvements . |
| 6 | He could borrow enough to buy an asset in the cash market , hold on to it for T years ( earning any income but bearing any carrying costs including interest on borrowed funds involved ) , and then sell it in the cash market and also repay the loan with interest . |
| 7 | He clung to it for support , crouched for a view , glimpsed a retreating figure on the dwindling platform , then was swallowed in the soot-plumed tunnel . |
| 8 | Hopping to it for Peter Rabbit |
| 9 | On the first of these there must inevitably have been some continuation of the raising of teacher-awareness initiated by the involvement of teachers in the library committee and in making submissions to it for inclusion in the proposal . |
| 10 | With the increase in population from the early nineteenth century , education in this illiberal form was unable to adapt itself " to the needs of the new body of persons who turned to it for help " . |
| 11 | And it is ironic that just as we are beginning to turn to it for answers to environmental questions , it has begun aspiring to Western ways . |
| 12 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 13 | I have n't listened to it for ages . |
| 14 | As prime business premises the Bull inn ‘ with a lyttyll pyttyll ’ was let for 13s. 4d. , and the garden attached to it for 1s. 2d . |
| 15 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 16 | At that time , Grand Met entered into an option whereby Brent Walker could sell Whyte & Mackay to it for £150m at any time before October 31 . ’ |
| 17 | We 've been used to it for centuries . |