Example sentences of "it [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 2 | The 9 and 11 June amendment widens the scope of the categories of objects concerned and increases the time limit within which a claim for restitution can be made from thirty to fifty years , removing it altogether for objects in state or ecclesiastical ownership . |
| 3 | See my house — try it on for size , as it were ? |
| 4 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 5 | Put it on for Tuesday . |
| 6 | Caterham , however , will try to sell it on for £17,500 . |
| 7 | Now , if youre gon na do summink , do it right for christs sake . |
| 8 | It had hung in Maggie 's bedroom for as long as Phoebe could remember : she had not looked at it properly for years . |
| 9 | For example , a contravention of this principle would occur if an organisation were to register the holding of personal data for purposes of personnel management , and use it additionally for marketing purposes . |
| 10 | He then wore it daily for years and , on occasion , nearly sacked people if it was temporarily mislaid . |
| 11 | They sealed victory with an excellent try when full back Kevin McCallum overlapped on the left wing to take the ball from Chris Mattison , then flipped it inside for Potter to race 20 yards to score . |
| 12 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
| 13 | She claimed to be doing it only for Jeeta , but there was real , wilful contrariness in it , I suspected . |
| 14 | Forget touch typing and full-screen editing , of course : the Portfolio 's keyboard and screen suit it only for note-taking , and its resident editing software is inadequate for anything more enterprising . |
| 15 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 16 | Someone else had got it together for Adam and there it all was . |
| 17 | He says all they did was just put it in for storage and then wait for the police to call but the first he heard was on Monday . |
| 18 | He 'd really got it in for Nigel . |
| 19 | The vocablry — you get the idea ? — was devised by a comity headed by a lectr at Astn Universty ( as this paper 's Edicayshn Editr reported on March 27 ) and seems to hav it in for vowls . |
| 20 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand that I can make no comments about the merits of the proposal which is the subject of our debate or about the case for calling it in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 21 | Supposed to take it in for M O T. |
| 22 | Ow that 's sharp , put it in there now please , put it in for mummy |
| 23 | just put it in for Thursday morning , see what |
| 24 | ‘ They all had it in for Jonathan and they did what they could to harm him , but they were glad enough of his money , of his custom in their shops and of the work he provided . ’ |
| 25 | What she decided to do was produce Monday which we agreed to put it in for Monday and she would ask them midweek delivery . |
| 26 | He had it in for Giggs , I knew he had . |
| 27 | The latter does n't seem such a great deal as anybody with one of a selection of rival Windows or DOS word processor can trade it in for WordPerfect 5.2 for only £99+VAT . |
| 28 | 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) . |
| 29 | We see it down for luck . |
| 30 | He hurried the will into proper form and brought it down for signature . |