Example sentences of "[prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you can do so your holding will deteriorate or you will spend a small fortune paying outsiders to look after it for you . |
| 2 | If you have forgotten anything , you can always phone whoever has a key to your house or is looking after it for you . |
| 3 | Making a will with a solicitor also has the advantage of that you 'll have a copy , he 's likely to look after it for you if you want him to . |
| 4 | If one word stands out as not being the same as the others , put a question mark after it for now . |
| 5 | He had some money saved and wanted the Army captain to look after it for Jeannie . |
| 6 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 7 | I 'll look after it for you until you 're back . ’ |
| 8 | Because we ca n't just accept that , that manufacturers will look after it for us , because as you 've , already said by the Chief , they 'll move the factory where it |
| 9 | I 'm looking after it for Cherry . |
| 10 | The specificity of this form of violence or coercion has to be recognized , however one feels about the terrible consequences of it for the innocent . |
| 11 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 12 | We had some extremely hot gear lying around so we asked them if they 'd have a go at getting rid of it for us out of town where it maybe would have cooled down somewhat . |
| 13 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 14 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 15 | I would n't even think of it for a minute if it was n't best for everybody . |
| 16 | For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time … |
| 17 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 18 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 19 | When he asks to be given some of the soup , Jacob seizes the opportunity , and exchanges a bowl of it for Esau 's privileges as the firstborn . |
| 20 | Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods . |
| 21 | The Vietnamese , who have kept a few items of sunken treasure for a museum in Hanoi , but sent most of it for auction in the West , pronounced themselves well satisfied . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm playing for the fun I can get out of it for myself , and not for them , ’ said the five-times Wimbledon champion after a 7–5 , 6–2 defeat by Frenchman Olivier Delaitre in the Nice Open yesterday in his first relevant match of this year 's comeback . |
| 23 | The purchase of a tractor was often part-financed by the forest which made use of it for about half the year . |
| 24 | If so , please take note of it for future reference . |
| 25 | We will demonstrate your new machine , make sure you are happy with it and then , should you so wish , we 'll take away your old machine and dispose of it for you . |
| 26 | Several notable criminals , e.g. Jonathan Wild ( 1682 ? -1725 ) , and many refugees from the French Revolution were buried in its graveyard , which perhaps prompted CD 's choice of it for Cly 's mock-funeral in Tale of Two Cities ( ii 14 ; iii 8 ) . |
| 27 | I do n't suppose anything else out of the ordinary has happened there for about five hundred years , so the local people should be full of it for weeks . ’ |
| 28 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 29 | Can you get rid of it for me . ’ |
| 30 | Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . |