Example sentences of "it [vb -s] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except in those countries such as Ireland , Greece and Portugal , where the benefits of Federalism are largely measured in terms of the largesse it produces for them , greater comprehension of what is going on has brought growing anxiety about it . |
| 2 | I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms . |
| 3 | It has for me . |
| 4 | The ability to remember information is related directly to the importance which it has for you . |
| 5 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 6 | ‘ — the more difficult it gets for us to disprove an alibi . ’ |
| 7 | To improve the assimilation of new staff into CA and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential |
| 8 | To improve the assimilation of new overseas staff into CA and Britain , and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential |
| 9 | ‘ That done , ’ he went on determinedly , ‘ and for as long as it takes for him to get you out of his system , you will be my girlfriend . |
| 10 | ‘ As many as it takes for me to understand , ’ Polly shouted back . |
| 11 | As long as it takes for us to tire of each other , I suppose . |
| 12 | ‘ As many times as it takes for you to realise that shutting him out will only keep him in , ’ he insisted firmly . |
| 13 | Now break it up as it is cut along the dotted lines and the object is to see how long it takes for it to be reassembled . |
| 14 | It tolls for thee . |
| 15 | ‘ Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls ; it tolls for thee . ’ |
| 16 | It burns for you . ’ |
| 17 | We can now introduce another meaning for that verb ‘ to explain ’ : in this situation , many researchers say that the proportion of females in a job ‘ explains ’ the relationship between the status of the job and absenteeism , in the sense that it accounts for it entirely . |
| 18 | I have no research to prove that it is an effective relaxation technique , but everyone who has experienced it asks for it when they come back for more treatment . ’ |
| 19 | I have no research to prove that it is an effective relaxation technique , but everyone who has experienced it asks for it when they come back for more treatment . ’ |
| 20 | Can they tell you , when they use it , what it expresses for them ? |
| 21 | As well as recording movements , it preserves for us portraits of scientists , and pictures of industrial processes . |
| 22 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 23 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 24 | negative and excluding people , but I also think that labels can be very , very positive and very , very important and that 's , I think that 's why erm , people thought up the word feminism and yeah , okay we have to think about the word and we have to think about what it means for us so yeah , a lot of pe , er people do n't want to call themselves feminists because the label has such negative connotations , but it does also mean very positive things , it 's a way of bringing people together , it 's a way of supporting each other , it 's , you know it 's , brings solidarity to the movement and people need labels . |
| 25 | We would urge you to think about the consequences of what it proposes and what it means for you . |
| 26 | ‘ It moves for me by contrasts , ’ he said , and now he began to take an interest in , even to listen to , what he himself was saying . |
| 27 | Do n't go into all the technical details without er , six months er , payable until you return to work , reach sixty or die , payable for by reduced allocation to the units according the age and sex , etcetera , etcetera , and tell him what it does for him . |
| 28 | McManus notes that ‘ aggression does not pay off for girls in the way some boys find it does for them ’ , with the result that many girls adapt to the social world of school in a different way . |
| 29 | They want to know that you know it , and they want to feel confident that if they ask you question you can answer it , but they very much want to know what it does for them and how much it 's going to cost them basically . |
| 30 | Tell them about the aims of the Medau Society , what it does for them , and for others |