Example sentences of "[to-vb] it for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He says : we 're looking for a millionaire to buy it for his wife as the ideal shopping car . |
| 4 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 5 | The grantee was morally a custodian of the land , and not entitled to use it for his own purposes . |
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| 7 | Wollongong , Palo Alto , California plans to use it in its open systems interconnection communications product line for the Digital Equipment Corp VAX , and Datability , Carlstadt , New Jersey plans to incorporate it for its communications server product line . |
| 8 | I suppose you want to keep it for your wedding night ? ’ |
| 9 | Even better is the final presentation of the promised land ( Deuteronomy 9:6 ) like a cross father grudgingly handing the Christmas presents to his undeserving children : ‘ Understand therefore , that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness ; for thou art a stiffnecked people . ’ |
| 10 | So if Steve Boxer really wants to get rid of his Epson , I 'd be more than happy to swap it for my even more useless paperweight . |
| 11 | He tried the same with Flora but she only told him to save it for his interview with Dr Mackintosh that morning . |
| 12 | We spent two summer holidays and three Christmases at the melin before at last we were able to claim it for our own occupation . |
| 13 | I 'd like Mrs Perks to have it for her little boy . |
| 14 | and he wants to get it for his disability project to see if he can get |
| 15 | In many such cases earners of the foreign currency might be expected to exchange it for their own . |
| 16 | It is also crucial to ask whether the media are able to cope with this growth in information and whether they can do anything to counter the efforts of governments to manipulate it for their own ends . |
| 17 | ‘ Am I to spend it for your pleasure or my own ? ’ |
| 18 | It was made for Barclays Bank and we are grateful to them for allowing us to adapt it for our own use . |
| 19 | Try creating a 3DMenu on your hard disk , copy all the 3DMenu files over to it and then start adding and altering options to customize it for your system . |