Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he added : ‘ It is important to me that the boys know I offered to do it for nothing . ’ |
| 2 | It 's a long trip , and I would n't want to do it for nothing . ’ |
| 3 | You know , they 're not going to do it for nothing . |
| 4 | Just that they , they 're not willing to do it for nothing , and it 's going to cost you twenty pounds a time on top of the P A hire . |
| 5 | ‘ If I do it for you , I 've got to do it for everyone … |
| 6 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 7 | The cost of weapons often means they are in potentially short supply , all the more so because once commanders find that a weapon works , they want to use it for everything . |
| 8 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 9 | No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection . |
| 10 | As far as beta blockade is concerned there are two approaches : one is the pragmatic approach , to prescribe it for everybody who can tolerate it , and not to investigate because of cost ( beta blockade is relatively cheap ) ; the other approach is to investigate all patients in the hope of giving focused therapy . |
| 11 | I did n't want to spoil it for everybody . ’ |
| 12 | She let him know also that she was a virgin and wanted to save it for someone special . |
| 13 | The notion is analogous to our understanding that we need to save up money in order to exchange it for something we wish to buy . |