Example sentences of "it for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maths teacher had been , Maggie knew , contemptuous and rude and sexist , but Maggie felt that Phoebe should have put up with it for her sake . |
| 2 | I want it for her own good . |
| 3 | She wore it for her lover who was far , far away |
| 4 | Oh , she wore it for her lover who was far , far away . |
| 5 | ‘ Got it for her week before . |
| 6 | Grandma would use it for her buttonholes when she went to church , along with a flower or two . |
| 7 | It tasted heavy and there was too much whiskey in it for her taste . |
| 8 | She did it for her father and liked to do so in the one part of the house that was totally his . |
| 9 | Lawyer D told her that a jointly-owned house would become the sole property of her husband after her death , and she could not in any way guarantee her share of the money invested in it for her children . |
| 10 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 11 | I 'd like Mrs Perks to have it for her little boy . |
| 12 | She had fought hard to make a new life for herself — and there was absolutely no room in it for her husband . |
| 13 | When she was a teenager she used to go round wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for her head . |
| 14 | A nine year old child bought petrol from the defendants after falsely stating that his mother needed it for her car . |
| 15 | No , I trimmed it for her last week |
| 16 | her Mum bought it for her er pure wool |
| 17 | But there will also be those who will stay with it for its relish of damnation . |
| 18 | It should be collected primarily because government needs it for its own businesses . ’ |
| 19 | Conservative politicians attack the BBC for its alleged left-wing bias ( Newton , 1988a , p. 326 ) ; academic sociologists attack it for its alleged anti-trade union and pro-right-wing bias ( Glasgow University Media Group , 1976 , 1980 , 1982 ; Beharrell and Philo , 1977 ) . |
| 20 | While electoral democracy is spreading across Europe ( and the world ) , why does Britain restrict it for its own citizens ? |
| 21 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 22 | Noreen had a small voice and relied on people listening to it for its full effect . |
| 23 | If I remember rightly it was called ‘ My Kitchen Window ’ and I liked it for its succinct simplicity and the fact that it rang true . |
| 24 | He talked and wrote about Russia because he knew that land and loved it for its enduring cultural and academic qualities , which no one could deny . |
| 25 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 26 | When you have finished your conversation , thank it for its help , and see a shaft of light come out of the sky and illuminate this aspect of your Shadow . |
| 27 | Watch it for its parched melancholia : watch it for the fantastic innards-eaten Erich von Stroheim ; watch it and spot which tiny , yet central , image Spielberg nicked from it for ET . |
| 28 | Hated it for its bleak isolation and petty preoccupation with the work of fences and confinement . |
| 29 | Essentially I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas and I 'm not interested in it for its own sake . |
| 30 | Wollongong , Palo Alto , California plans to use it in its open systems interconnection communications product line for the Digital Equipment Corp VAX , and Datability , Carlstadt , New Jersey plans to incorporate it for its communications server product line . |