Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't heard about it for years . |
| 2 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 3 | I have n't really thought about it for ages actually . |
| 4 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 5 | And even before doing this it can examine the firms already registered with it for suitability . |
| 6 | Rachaela had played in it for hours , she was six , it had been oddly magical . |
| 7 | It must , he thought , have been decades since a fire was lit in it for warmth . |
| 8 | But needed some kind of help : she 'd spoken about it for months before and was utterly thrilled when Jay drawled an interest . |
| 9 | Everyone has known about it for years . ’ |
| 10 | I must have walked past it for days without noticing : ‘ For sale . |
| 11 | PA Consulting , which prepared the secret report on Warren Spring 's future , has also competed against it for government contracts . |
| 12 | I 'm not being facile , but we came from the sea , we 've dumped on it for years and it looks like it 's getting its own back . |
| 13 | She seemed much more cheerful and was full of chatter about her new friends and about the wonderful workers at the Blind Club , where she was learning to write using a metal board with black elastic stretched across it for lines . |
| 14 | He said the Kenton Road unit was vital to the 30 adults who have regularly relied on it for help since it began as a pilot project two years ago . |
| 15 | The whole area had been covered with black polythene sheeting to keep down weeds , with a few slits cut in it for drainage . |
| 16 | Douglas Kinnaird , of PA Consultants and one of the UK 's top headhunters , makes the point that quite often women do n't realise how hard promotion is to get and that men have worked for it for months , if not years . |
| 17 | There was a chest-of-drawers painted pale blue with flowers cut from seed-packets glued onto it for decoration . |
| 18 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 19 | The symbol of this security was the masía — the solidly built farmhouse that dominated the landscape of rural Catalonia and often bore the name of the family that had lived in it for generations . |
| 20 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 21 | I have n't listened to it for ages . |
| 22 | As prime business premises the Bull inn ‘ with a lyttyll pyttyll ’ was let for 13s. 4d. , and the garden attached to it for 1s. 2d . |