Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 32 | The green of the spring grass and of the new leaves upon the trees was so intense that even riding through it for hours could not dim John 's sense of wonder . |
| 33 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 34 | There is considerable evidence that starting oestrogen therapy within two years of the menopause , and staying on it for at least five years , can reduce your risk of fracture by 50 to 60 per cent . |
| 35 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 36 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 37 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 38 | The pressures on the CNAA as colleges showed interest in coming to it for validation were of various kinds . |
| 39 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 40 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 41 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 42 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 43 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 44 | The discovery of more stable chemicals ( Table 3 ) — the true residual insecticides — which were sprayed on to the walls and roofs of dwellings and left a deposit that was lethal to mosquitoes resting on it for many weeks and even months , produced the ideal control that did not demand an impossibly high efficiency . |
| 45 | The carpet industry is , however , one of Nepal 's largest employers , with some 250,000 people depending on it for work . |
| 46 | John Sculley at Apple Computer Inc is another name that has been canvassed , and he is the exception that proves the rule that an outsider ca n't run a computer company , but he came in fascinated by the business and devoted all his efforts in the early days learning about it for himself rather than relying on his minions , something no-one taking over IBM now has time to do . |
| 47 | You must tackle a warren as though you intend to do a good job at it ; there 's precious little point or pleasure in dabbling with it for that way you achieve very little . |
| 48 | hand me swinging on it for ten minutes |
| 49 | You ass what did you want to start hacking at it for ? |
| 50 | ‘ He has played no part in either building the party or campaigning for it for four years now . ’ |
| 51 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 52 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 53 | She 's been talking about it for ye the past year . |
| 54 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 55 | However , there is nothing in Law which prevents a player dropping the ball and then falling on it for a score . |
| 56 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |
| 57 | She lay thinking about it for some time , then decided she had nothing to lose . |
| 58 | He closed the door behind him , leaning against it for a moment , catching his breath . |
| 59 | He now stumbled round the head of the couch and from there , leaning against it for support , he growled at her , ‘ If I go she comes with me . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Like Jenny ? ’ she whispered , and clutched the door-jamb behind her , leaning against it for support , directly parallel to him . |