Example sentences of "[verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the king penguin : the male is the one that incubates the egg , carrying it around on its feet and protecting it for months from the Antarctic weather with a fold of its lower belly … |
| 2 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 3 | Quinn then seemed to have won it for City with a 51st-minute header but Steve Whitton levelled again from the penalty spot . |
| 4 | ‘ I should have won it for Everton . |
| 5 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think Manchester had too many chances in extra time and a Falconer goal would have won it for us . |
| 7 | The only bad thing of course , if we were to get relegated but to bring promotion and relegation into speedway is a good thing because you know , if you win the lower league , what have you won it for ? |
| 8 | ‘ Solving problems , however was not Highlander 's purpose , its purpose to ‘ help people learn to solve their problems in their own way , ’ and in its life since then Highlander has always worked with the under-privileged , exploited , relatively powerless communities which have approached it for assistance . |
| 9 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
| 10 | The Institute should be sponsoring its own research in this area and encouraging UK companies to try it for themselves . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
| 12 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 13 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 14 | He has it for so long . |
| 15 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 16 | He strolled to the door , opening it for her , and she glanced at him crossly . |
| 17 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll need it for the bike when we arrive . |
| 19 | You will need it for exchanging travellers cheques and currency . |
| 20 | I did n't need it for myself and none of my students could read it anyway . |
| 21 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 22 | I 'll need it for my missionary work in India , and you could help me to learn it by studying with me . |
| 23 | We do n't need it for the expansion of our race ; indeed , it 's inimical to orderly civilization . |
| 24 | He wo n't need it for a bit if this weather goes on . |
| 25 | ‘ What does he need it for ? ’ |
| 26 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 27 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |
| 28 | Yes , you do n't need it for what we 're going to do now |
| 29 | Well that 's alright , we need it we shall need it for the |
| 30 | We shall need it for the forty foots . |