Example sentences of "it [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wo n't get it for that much ! |
| 2 | I mean she would n't get it for that cheap would she . |
| 3 | That 's what that diploma was , you know , paid me for it for that five hun , that 's what it was |
| 4 | You 've set it for that rough track . ’ |
| 5 | It was difficult to draw well in such conditions , among the noise and confusion , standing in mud in the squalls of rain , but worth it for all that . |
| 6 | Since , due to familiarity , we are more at home with the second notation than the first we shall adopt it for all binary operations . |
| 7 | He is too relaxed for all the questions with which he is being bombarded , and full of wonder at how golfers such as Nicklaus and Watson have coped with it for all these years . |
| 8 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 9 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 10 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 11 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 12 | However , suppose we have proved it for all finite P , Q , R. ( We will shortly do this . ) |
| 13 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 14 | While business was buoyant there was a living in it for many small shops that are liable to succumb in a climate where 40 per cent of the country are wanting independent deals , and the remainder are demanding much improved advice and service . |
| 15 | By taking advantage of this facility , we can draw one pattern in a basic design option ( such as Fair Isle as we have done ) and then use it for many different types of knitting . |
| 16 | Was it for this that earth grew tall ? |
| 17 | We 're doing it for this little orphanage and it 's all terrible exciting . |
| 18 | Was it for this common servitor to censure his habits ? |
| 19 | A high dry-stone wall enclosed the land round it for some four or five acres , and inside this enclosure were more trees , oak and fir and beech above the massed colours of rhododendrons in flower , with one big horse-chestnut in full bloom holding its creamy candelabra out across the wall . |
| 20 | There remained only a narrow gauge track , reminiscent of an Emmett railway and called the Meusien , that was designed to supply the wants of a peacetime garrison , and the second-class road that ran alongside it for some fifty miles from Barle-Due . |
| 21 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 22 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 23 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 24 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |
| 26 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
| 27 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 28 | credit card or trading check which can be used only in specific shops ) ; or it is unrestricted , where the borrower gets a loan of money which he could in practice use for whatever he wants ( even if he has in fact arranged to use it for some particular purpose ) . |
| 29 | Well , they erm seem to think we should have had some yellow in it for some obscure reason to match the programme , but I do n't know , I thing it would have taken the erm the look off the thing . |
| 30 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |