Example sentences of "it for [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 2 | The ghosts who do want to go haunting , do it for all sorts of different reasons . |
| 3 | ‘ What , and spoil it for all readers with weak chins ? ’ |
| 4 | Spiders use it for all kinds of purposes — making egg-sacs , lining nests , weaving tents for their babies and as safety lines when they jump . |
| 5 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 6 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 7 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 8 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 9 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |
| 10 | He most likely uses it for private communication with his lackeys , and for controlling his zombis . ’ |
| 11 | four week course , but he 's running it for two hours for two weeks . |
| 12 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 13 | He was delighted , said he would mark it for immediate release to the newspapers under the Branch Secretary 's name . |
| 14 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 15 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 16 | Perry and me have been without it for five days before this only on methadone . |
| 17 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 18 | It would be possible to suppose , for instance , that the true Schrödinger-like equation , whatever it is , involves non-linearities which enforce a violation of the superposition principle for very complex systems , whilst essentially preserving it for simple systems to which we have actually applied quantum mechanics . |
| 19 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 20 | It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant . |
| 21 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 22 | Since then the Edinburgh Zoo has seen upwards of 50 000 people using it for this purpose in a year . |
| 23 | She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married . |
| 24 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 25 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 26 | Other European countries use prison sentencing much less than Britain , and use it for shorter periods of time . |
| 27 | I was supposed to use it for 20 minutes on each side in between Holly 's feeds , which were every two or three hours anyway . |
| 28 | We let it for short terms to captains and such like . ’ |
| 29 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 30 | I was climbing in low gear , my eyes searching the vehicle and the bank behind it for any sign of movement . |