Example sentences of "it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just leave it for a while . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ I 've been over it for years . |
| 33 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 34 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 35 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 36 | Well — he would not , and the laird turned him out for it — he turned him out and sent him off and we have had no land since and he put nobody else into Upper Farrochil — he only wanted it for himself . |
| 37 | ‘ All right , Sandy , keep it for the wedding . |
| 38 | I claimed it for my own . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ Hired murderers — in it for the blood money . |
| 40 | You will manage — oh yes — although you have no servants to feed your animals or cook your meat for you — you will manage , although you are a year married with a wee child learning to walk , and no wet-nurse to mind it for you while you milk the beasts — and no young husband to thatch your house above your head . |
| 41 | The forts and barracks have gone up , an iron chain along the Great Glen , an iron ring round the coasts — you have built it for them , you have clamped these fetters on your own wrists , and I do not excuse myself — my first work was mending the roof of the arsenal at Fort Augustus in 1784 . |
| 42 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 43 | And she would stay off it for days on end . |
| 44 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 45 | I planned to tell her so , but left it for tonight . |
| 46 | He was delighted , said he would mark it for immediate release to the newspapers under the Branch Secretary 's name . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'll need it for the bike when we arrive . |
| 48 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 49 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 50 | Oscar took his jacket off and I offered to carry it for him . |
| 51 | Let's hear it for the fans |
| 52 | To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6 . |
| 53 | I used it for areas hard to reach with chisel and mallet , and expect that when carving delicate work it has the advantage of not disturbing the workpiece with sudden strikes . |
| 54 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 55 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 57 | ‘ Brendan designed it for hop pellets but I only use whole hops . ’ |
| 58 | I would rather have no bolts and the romantic ethic — leave it for the next generation if it requires a bolt . |
| 59 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 60 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |