Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needs it for a wager on the Brasseywing . ’ |
| 2 | The Labour Department can cajole companies to break the ceiling themselves before someone does it for them . |
| 3 | Somebody uses it for boozing sessions . ’ |
| 4 | Such studies are rare since they require an examination of media practices and content as well as a critical assessment of the media 's presentation of the ‘ real world ’ — an assessment which takes it for granted that the media do not reproduce ‘ reality ’ in a pure form ; their use of language and images as well as the working practices of journalists inevitably refract ‘ reality ’ , so ‘ distorting ’ it . |
| 5 | You make your own mind up pet nobody does it for you . |
| 6 | First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late . |
| 7 | ‘ Mrs Morey says I 've got beautiful hair and she brushes it for me . ’ |
| 8 | She wants it for him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Who holds it for the Empress ? ’ |
| 10 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 11 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 12 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
| 13 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 14 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 15 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 16 | ‘ It does n't matter , if she does it for Nails . ’ |
| 17 | But she wo n't let him try , he does n't have to use his mind , she does it for him . |
| 18 | Claire says it 's always a challenge … you sometimes get cold … but she does it for enjoyment there 's no other reason |
| 19 | You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people |
| 20 | ‘ We were in a Stockton recording studio at the time when the MMB asked the guy who runs it for ideas of music and we were suggested , ’ says Meadows who with schooldays chum Anthony Roe are the lead vocals . |
| 21 | ‘ She 'd well be able to but your mother has to be here , this is our home , she runs it for you and me , Benny . ’ |
| 22 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 23 | But it is when one sees it for oneself that the problem is really understood . |
| 24 | So that 's how you arrange it like that , the first thing you then do is to tuck the spare bit under the hand , cos the hand then there anchors it for you |
| 25 | I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas . |
| 26 | He writes it for me . |
| 27 | He has it for so long . |
| 28 | I du n no , he needs it for something . |
| 29 | ‘ Besides , ’ said Garvin , ‘ all he wants it for is to go to Monte Carlo again . |
| 30 | It optimises it for distributed massively parallel processing . |