Example sentences of "[verb] it [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the main , employees who refuse to accept alternative employment which requires them to move house are unlikely to be deemed as refusing it unreasonably. for instance in Rose v. |
| 2 | Its two solar rings will give it power for fifteen years to send back the closest and clearest pictures of the universe ever seen . |
| 3 | You 're expecting them to remember it word for word as though it you know it 's ingrained on their soul almost and ca n't |
| 4 | The High Court action reached its climax on 11 January when BA issued a public apology to Virgin and paid it £610,000 for damage caused by libel . |
| 5 | What have you called it Coco for ? |
| 6 | Highly imaginative as they were , all three gentlemen called it Sauce for Boiled Lobster . |
| 7 | You know it word for word . |
| 8 | ( As the project has developed , the Coordinating Team has had more confidence in " delaying " a Major award to a school by a year to give it time for further consolidation . ) |
| 9 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 10 | I it it still seems to me every time I read the policy that it 's a lot more flexible than most people are giving it credit for frankly . |
| 11 | Read through your full speech several times , preferably aloud and preferably into a tape-recorder , but do not try to memorise it word for word . |
| 12 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 13 | ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’ |
| 14 | He had paid it no attention , for the light still reached it only by reflected glimpses ; but Isambard had lived with it on close terms for fifteen years , and knew it line for line and feature for feature . |
| 15 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 16 | I had n't given it houseroom for long enough . |
| 17 | That 's been its name since 1880 , but it 's a bit of a mouthful , even when we doctors call it polio for short . |
| 18 | Labour would also take control of the national electricity grid , making it responsibility for energy saving . |
| 19 | Well I might get it Sunday for you . |
| 20 | You might get it backdoor for £25 . |
| 21 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now has a second chance to get it Wright for England ! |
| 22 | I needed to , for Jean-Claude remembered it word for word . |
| 23 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 24 | The West 's involvement in Iraq gave it responsibility for dealing actively with the situation there , despite the mealy-mouthed excuses for allowing Saddam Hussein to survive . |
| 25 | Do it word for word . |
| 26 | Eagle Star launched it strategy for the older market last April , with a range of special policies sold by a mature salesforce . |
| 27 | So we close it down , to make it way for a new hundred bedded day hospital , which 'll be not private , guaranteed , no way will it be private . |
| 28 | Tikhon knows the passage by heart and recites it word for word . |