Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I ca n't help feeling that this is strictly a US product and that no attempt has been made to localize it for UK or European markets . |
| 2 | There are a few well-rehearsed cases in which all the information provided by a text is not used to interpret it For example , people often fail to see what is wrong with asking of an air crash on a national frontier ‘ where were the survivors buried ? ’ or they fail to see why saying that a book ‘ fills a much-needed gap ’ is an insult to its author . |
| 3 | Known as London Fields , Angela and Matthew Flowers had intended to use it for storage , but the appeal of the space suggested a more imaginative solution and so a proportion will be employed for changing exhibitions or for more permanent installations by gallery artists . |
| 4 | I certainly have not met another Brother or Sister Brush that has been compelled to study it for weeks on end … |
| 5 | Like PEPS everywhere , this was slow to catch on , especially as dealers were forced to sell it for days at a time without getting paid commission for it , so most did n't bother . |
| 6 | Tulipifera liriodendron ( i.e. Liriodendron tulipifera ) known in England as the tulip tree and as a ‘ poplar ’ by settlers in America , first flowered in this country in the Earl of Peterborough 's garden at Parsons Green where it had been planted , according to Miller , in a wilderness with other trees allowed to overhang it for protection . |
| 7 | I 'd even begun to mistake it for part of my own body , an incurable growth that I 've got to learn to live with . |
| 8 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |