Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well , it was right it was cheaper to do it for twelve months anyway . |
| 2 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 3 | You can claim other defences as well : for example , if you need the blade or point for work , or if it is necessary to carry it for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 4 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 5 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |
| 6 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 7 | It 's worth trying it for eighteen miles , is n't it ? ’ |
| 8 | Question , you go to see Mr. and Mrs. Client tonight , and they need , let's say they need a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover , and to fit their lifestyle , or their children , their family , they need it for eighteen years , they ca n't afford that . |
| 9 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 10 | Where in previous years these vessels had been purely large fishing vessels loading salted fish into barrels for immediate export to their own ports , now there came great numbers of large factory ships and modern trawlers which could process fish , package it and freeze it for indefinite periods . |
| 11 | It was decided that until the camp arrived Lady Rathcreedan could use it for grazing cattle . |
| 12 | Most people joined it for humanitarian reasons but it was an outlet for all kinds of disgust . |
| 13 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 14 | The ghosts who do want to go haunting , do it for all sorts of different reasons . |
| 15 | ‘ What , and spoil it for all readers with weak chins ? ’ |
| 16 | Spiders use it for all kinds of purposes — making egg-sacs , lining nests , weaving tents for their babies and as safety lines when they jump . |
| 17 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 18 | No we could , we could do it for all jobs cos |
| 19 | we could do it for all jobs , and see , that 's what I saying , I mean , we 've got |
| 20 | The more effort that has to be put into these component skills , the less processing space there is for monitoring the procedure — i.e. , taking the message as a cognitive object and scrutinizing it for possible inconsistencies . |
| 21 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 22 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 23 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 24 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |
| 25 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 26 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 27 | No sound had emerged from it for six months : spare parts were hard to get , Dynmouth Hi-Fi Boutique informed him . |
| 28 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 29 | So we 're giving em it for six months . |
| 30 | We 're giving it for six months . |