Example sentences of "it for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 2 | Apart from Nora and the weirdos we 'd get people buying it for their girlfriends , as a laugh Some girls , those who were a bit more out there , would buy the rubber wear for themselves . |
| 3 | Urine advertised as free of detectable drugs is on offer by mail-order to anxious test takers , who could try to substitute it for their own . |
| 4 | However , most of his tours are accompanied by freelance lecturers , though never those who rely on it for their livelihood , who , he thinks , get stale . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) Official figures indicate that one in five of southern Italians and a quarter of Greeks and Portuguese work in agriculture , although the numbers significantly dependent on it for their livelihood must be considerably higher . |
| 6 | ‘ There is no dispute about the land unless a claim is made … compensation for those who claim it for their land and receive it from the authorities is calculated according to the value of the property in 1973 plus the difference in the index of inflation together with four per cent interest . ’ |
| 7 | In 1982–83 , 40 per cent of divorced women ( who had not remarried ) were receiving some maintenance ; 23 per cent received it for their children only , 12 per cent for their children and themselves and 3 per cent for themselves only . |
| 8 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 9 | Hoomey wondered who he would go along with when the day came his parents arranged his getting married , for Sikhs arranged it for their sons , Hoomey knew . |
| 10 | ‘ The Liss Friendly Social Club use the stage fortnightly and the playgroup also use it for their nativity . |
| 11 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 12 | 3pm : IRN feeds broadcast ‘ down the line ’ to local radio stations as they record it for their own broadcasts . |
| 13 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 14 | Reid was convinced that the British Empire had given New Zealand the Cook Islands mandate because the Americans wanted it for their sphere of influence . |
| 15 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 16 | It is also crucial to ask whether the media are able to cope with this growth in information and whether they can do anything to counter the efforts of governments to manipulate it for their own ends . |
| 17 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |
| 18 | SunSoft is also shipping a multi-processing OEM kit for Solaris 2.0 , which it says will allow system manufacturers to take advantage of the symmetric multi-processing features of the kernel , such as multi-threading , and tune and verify it for their specific hardware implementations . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe passionately in the future of this industry but what chance have we got when an avaricious few are using it for their own crazy purposes ? ’ |
| 20 | What was once the abbey 's guest-house had been increasing in size and grandeur as successive monarchs used it for their Edinburgh residence . |
| 21 | The adults extract oil from the sea-creatures they eat and then regurgitate it for their chicks . |
| 22 | Tourism does bring economic benefits to rural areas , but it is usually considered to be a mixed blessing , even by those who depend on it for their living . |
| 23 | The rulers promptly monopolized it for their own regalia and as a medium for bestowing honour and obligations on their retainers . |
| 24 | Patronage by the Church has been part of the musical world for centuries , and in the past many of the greatest composers have depended upon it for their livelihood . |
| 25 | They did it for their conquerors . ’ |
| 26 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 27 | And you 're quite sure that while the car was down in Streatley , the thieves who I 'm after would n't have had a chance to take it and use it for their break-in ? ’ |
| 28 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 29 | Even more importantly users are skillful at manipulating it for their own purpose . " |
| 30 | And yet when folk got it for their arthritis , okay ? |