Example sentences of "it [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 However I must have played with it for that tool set led to Dad 's most embarrassing moment — something which he never ever let me forget .
2 You must tackle a warren as though you intend to do a good job at it ; there 's precious little point or pleasure in dabbling with it for that way you achieve very little .
3 You 've set it for that rough track . ’
4 Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition .
5 ‘ No , absolutely not , though people can take information from it and use it for that purpose if they 're so minded .
6 I 'll change it for that goose , I will . ’
7 My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's .
8 He seems nevertheless to have come very close to substituting his view of the statutory power and the discretions within it for that of the minister .
9 Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure .
10 So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption .
11 Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time ,
12 I 'm far too fond of it for that .
13 You 're too determined — too single-minded about it for that .
14 She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine .
15 Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that .
16 ‘ I did not bring it for that purpose , ’ said Andrus hoarsely .
17 It was generally supportive of the monarch but became more powerful because of the dependence upon it for that support , especially during the reign of Elizabeth I. The relationship between Crown and Parliament under the subsequent Stuart dynasty was one of conflict .
18 Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on .
19 That would be too late would n't it for that though
20 it 's right soft carpet , it does n't , there not be a lot of wool in it for that money , you know what I mean
21 I said no , I 'm not , I 'm not doing it for that reason I said I 'm trying to you know thought to myself we 'll give them something back .
22 It 's not , it 's just like a little bead , it 's meant to be on it for that and
23 no you just use it for that and I 'm not going anywhere else
24 Well that 's it for that cupboard .
25 so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses
26 save it for that trip .
27 That 's what that diploma was , you know , paid me for it for that five hun , that 's what it was
28 not for that , I have n't heard it for that cos I 've heard
29 Ya so that if the goes up to thirty thousand the reserve might be large enough to give it to sell it for that price .
30 He bought it for that erm er her
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