Example sentences of "to it for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 2 | ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments . |
| 3 | On those grounds , the court in reply to the questions referred to it for a preliminary ruling by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , by order of 10 March 1989 , hereby rules : |
| 4 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 5 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 6 | They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look . |
| 7 | Both men listened to it for a moment , then Duclos stood up restlessly and walked over to his gramophone . |
| 8 | She stood stroking the animal and murmuring to it for a moment longer before glancing around the hut . |
| 9 | Should we look to it for a pool of inventive talent that actively embodied novelty in its products , and thereby provided pressure for technical change among its customers ; or rather , for provision of engineering skills that responded passively to the demands made upon it by the inventiveness of its clients consumer industries and civil engineers ? |
| 10 | ‘ Can I hang on to it for a while ? ’ |
| 11 | Erm that it it it will be erm that by law the County Council must consider any planning application which is made erm to it for a particular site . |
| 12 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 13 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 14 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 15 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 16 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 17 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |