Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | no it 's not , it 's been designed especially for it so erm he 's gon na get erm , I said what are you doing all this for I said , it 'll be easier to go and buy yourself a three wheeler |
| 2 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 3 | Though the earliest of this music was not written specifically for it , the harp was a viable , even commonly taken , option , no least in the Mudarra Fantasia , which raises an interesting point . |
| 4 | As a man , Lugard combined a passionate love of command with an equally passionate desire not to be judged unkindly for it . |
| 5 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 6 | If the everyday , as Lefebvre defines it , is ‘ whatever remains after one has eliminated all specialized activity ’ , then it is important to acknowledge television as most characteristically a part of the everyday ( an everyday which , Lefebvre argues , is a historically limited phenomenon ) , characteristically occupying everyday time and only on ‘ special ’ occasions occupying ‘ special ’ time set aside for it and it alone . |
| 7 | Even in Jakarta 's sixteen-storey Kartika Plaza hotel the fruit may only be consumed on three floors specially set aside for it . |
| 8 | Parking the car in the small space beneath the house that had been set aside for it , Belinda skimmed silently up the back stairs . |
| 9 | She remarked how each definable function of the household had a special room set aside for it , for example there were dining rooms , parlours and drawing rooms , and serving pantries , pantries and sculleries . |
| 10 | John Strachey , who though not officially in the Communist Party had worked assiduously for it since 1932 , was a significant contributor to this volume . |
| 11 | I 've sent away for it . |
| 12 | This is not a step to be undertaken lightly for it can have serious implications , even if the test result is negative . |
| 13 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
| 14 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 15 | Too many operators felt that the technology level was low enough to ‘ have a go ’ themselves , and had paid dearly for it . |
| 16 | I have paid dearly for it , God knows ! |