Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Institute should be sponsoring its own research in this area and encouraging UK companies to try it for themselves .
3 Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented .
4 Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ?
5 We are in negotiations with the local authority for planning permission , and we hope to obtain it for housing on some of that land .
6 It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why .
7 Incidentally , how did you persuade Michael Heseltine to write it for you ?
8 He 'd have got someone else to write it for him .
9 The ordinary Egyptian could not write and if he wished to send a letter he would have to get a scribe to write it for him .
10 I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes .
11 You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’
12 Konstantin Rusakov , present CC Secretary for intra-bloc relations , does indeed fault the Gierek leadership for ‘ big mistakes and miscalculations … in economic and social policy ’ , but goes on as well to indict it for ‘ flagrant departures from the integral regularities and principles of building socialism ’ .
13 Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate .
14 And a very unnatural mother I should think myself if I did not make a push to secure it for Gerald ! ’
15 The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 .
16 The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free .
17 This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers .
18 Where the PC has no real expanded RAM , using EMM386.EXE to provide it for cacheing is wasteful of resources .
19 The legal position in relation to the ag arrangement is uncertain since it is not expressed to provide it for in the will of Mrs who is , who is the very kindly elderly neighbour who is the landlord , but is only contained in a letter of Mrs from whom I have not heard in evidence .
20 Mr Hellyer asked me to hide it for him .
21 For one thing , all knowledge is explicable on the basis of the abilities we have to find it for ourselves .
22 It an add-in exists to solve your specific problem , we will undertake to find it for you to at the best price .
23 The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 .
24 If the pen 's barrel is not cracked and the lever is capable of movement then it should be possible to repair it for less than twenty pounds .
25 All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves .
26 Yet it will be hard to contain it for ever .
27 He must need to know it for other reasons .
28 C. and D. then , fraudulently and without the defendant 's knowledge , made arrangements with the building society to borrow £15,000 on the security of the property to enable them to purchase it for £24,500 from the defendant .
29 In 1983 , Aintree racecourse — the home of the Grand National — seemed destined for development and a public appeal had failed to raise the money necessary to purchase it for the nation .
30 Since the debt is being traded at discounted rates on the secondary markets , Conservation International will be able to purchase it for about $1.8 million .
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