Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 2 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 3 | He had time only to recognise it for what it was — a signal flare gun — before it belched a tongue of green flame at him . |
| 4 | Although the butler had never said or intimated anything untoward , Michael had grown up with prejudice long enough to recognize it for what it was . |
| 5 | They 're rich enough to pay for it and smart enough to get it for free . |
| 6 | She was lying in a freezing ditch , still with her pet dog , four days after she left home to take it for a walk . |
| 7 | Konstantin Rusakov , present CC Secretary for intra-bloc relations , does indeed fault the Gierek leadership for ‘ big mistakes and miscalculations … in economic and social policy ’ , but goes on as well to indict it for ‘ flagrant departures from the integral regularities and principles of building socialism ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , sir , I would , and before you dismiss that story , I 'd like to take you out there to hear it for yourself . ’ |
| 9 | We have to remember that we are not the only people who take recreation in the countryside ; we share it with others , whose views about disfiguring a crag with bolts and taking a drill there to do it for goodness sake ! may be very different from ours . |
| 10 | My man will be there to record it for me . |
| 11 | One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France . |
| 12 | Oh what ! up there to get it for you . |
| 13 | He 'd have got someone else to write it for him . |
| 14 | She went towards the second door , and Michael hurried ahead to open it for her . |
| 15 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 16 | The , in analysis you do n't get er someone else to do it for you or you do n't get the therapist to play the role of your ego which is really what happens in this suggestion . |
| 17 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 18 | Blackmail somebody else to do it for you . |
| 19 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |