Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute should be sponsoring its own research in this area and encouraging UK companies to try it for themselves . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
| 3 | It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why . |
| 4 | He 'd have got someone else to write it for him . |
| 5 | The ordinary Egyptian could not write and if he wished to send a letter he would have to get a scribe to write it for him . |
| 6 | Incidentally , how did you persuade Michael Heseltine to write it for you ? |
| 7 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 8 | Mr Hellyer asked me to hide it for him . |
| 9 | It an add-in exists to solve your specific problem , we will undertake to find it for you to at the best price . |
| 10 | For one thing , all knowledge is explicable on the basis of the abilities we have to find it for ourselves . |
| 11 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 12 | This stronger sense of learning also carries with it the idea that ultimately the student is able to evaluate it for him or herself , and form a personal view about its validity ( by reading the relevant articles , by listening to the different views of the authorities on the topic , and perhaps by assisting in a clinical trial ) . |
| 13 | Urine advertised as free of detectable drugs is on offer by mail-order to anxious test takers , who could try to substitute it for their own . |
| 14 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 15 | If it runs right through , then you need a builder to inspect it for you ; if it is greater than |
| 16 | As people became more intensely aware of the pleasures of beauty they wanted to create it for themselves and another new source of happiness was discovered . |
| 17 | That , that you 've got to create it for them . |
| 18 | I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in . |
| 19 | I ran like mad to open it for her . |
| 20 | She walked past Jotan to the door , and the pages who were stationed there hastened to open it for her . |
| 21 | She went towards the second door , and Michael hurried ahead to open it for her . |
| 22 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 23 | Sotheby 's was approached towards the end of 1988 , and , according to Llewellyn , ‘ We told the seller that we certainly would not be prepared to sell it for him unless it was clear that there were no existing legal claims to be made by any third parties against the picture . |
| 24 | A botanist spent 10 minutes trying to identify it for me , while I fretted between the reception desk and the child . |
| 25 | It was Charlotte 's wish really and when she wished something we all fought to fulfil it for her . |
| 26 | SIR JACOB : All your neighbours will rejoice to hear it for thou wast ever an unmanageable rake . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , sir , I would , and before you dismiss that story , I 'd like to take you out there to hear it for yourself . ’ |
| 28 | Another scale of wholesale charges for unused equipment is also useful for people who like a particular product so much that they genuinely want to buy it for themselves , albeit at a preferential rate . |
| 29 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 30 | He says : we 're looking for a millionaire to buy it for his wife as the ideal shopping car . |