Example sentences of "was [to-vb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 2 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 3 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 4 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 5 | She would have liked to know just which passages in the book her hostess found objectionable , but it was plain that the only way to find out was to study it for herself . |
| 6 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |