Example sentences of "of it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | How can I get rid of it for ever ? |
| 32 | Two days later , on 29 September , the Feast of St Michael and All Angels , Balboa and his men arrived on the shores of the great sea , to take possession of it for God and for Castile . |
| 33 | He put the can back on the table , placing his free hand across the top of it for a moment ; then he took the mug over to the couch and , handing it to her , said , ‘ You know that is n't true . |
| 34 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 35 | Nevertheless , government-funded research now runs into several millions of pounds a year , most of it for matters related to social policy . |
| 36 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 37 | As with Elizabethan concepts of society , where each man was supposed to labour in his vocation and place , each character usually belongs to one medium and only moves out of it for special and clearly defined purposes , love , hate , respect , mockery , dissimulation , self-revelation . |
| 38 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 39 | Used to get deliveries of it for the pigs that 's how they started up . |
| 40 | The works , which have just started , will cost £191,000 and involve making the early-Victorian listed building wind and water tight and restoring part of it for use by the Brechin Railway Preservation Society . |
| 41 | It seemed at first glance that Louise was wearing a turban ; she had saved her day 's ration of flour and had made a poultice of it for a boil which had erupted on her temple ; her other boils seemed to be growing slightly better . |
| 42 | The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught . |
| 43 | " He may have made it , but Fiver thought of it for us , " answered Hazel . |
| 44 | For each change , can you specify receivers with particular knowledge or lack of it for whom the new use would be correct ? |
| 45 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 46 | Others made use of it for axe or adze blades , among them the Indians of Amazonia , the Haida of Queen Charlotte Island , British Columbia , and the Eskimos of the Kobuk river , Alaska . |
| 47 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 48 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 49 | It 's part and parcel of it for a woman , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 50 | In America The Hymnal 1980 contains no fewer than 288 examples of service music and it is permissible to reproduce some of it for congregational use . |
| 51 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 52 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 53 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 54 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 55 | And you wo n't be part of it for much longer . |
| 56 | At least he 's out of it for a while , ’ she said , unaware of how much Chris meant to Maureen . |
| 57 | … We depend on the media for our life-blood , the stream of information , the adventures , the violence , the romance , … the eternal commentary that lines our lives like a loving companion , a double , making sense of it for us. ( 30–1 ) |
| 58 | If we can manage to get the tree-house finished by tomorrow , I 'll show you a way we can give him a piece of it for Father 's Day . ’ |
| 59 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 60 | Moyer spoke in support of it for almost an hour . |