Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 2 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 3 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 4 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 5 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 6 | Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 9 | Fry felt that he might have left it for good after his latest week of unemployment . |