Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] it for " in BNC.

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1 Fishing is also a sport , although the chaps who do it for a livelihood in trawlers are not included in the sporting fraternity .
2 So er if you y'know do the desired behaviour , you collect so many vouchers and er y'know when you 've got ten vouchers you exchange it for a television or something like that , but there 's a whole range of things of that nature .
3 Although major developments in the ecosystem were largely external to biogeography until the 1960s , Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 524 ) argued that the ecosystem concept has four main properties which commend it for geographical investigation .
4 This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment .
5 And we commence this morning with Lot number one Lot number one is showing to my right here , the ivory carving at fifty pounds at fifty pounds at fifty pounds you want it for fifty pounds , thank you sir , fifty I 've got now , fifty pounds is offered at fifty five at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy , seventy five eighty five ninety ninety pounds in the back row at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , any further bids at ninety pounds at ninety pounds .
6 That I am not , is due partly to my dislike of professional boxing and the men who manipulate it for their own ends , and partly to the fact that Lewis is yet another ‘ adopted ’ Englishman , who has spent most of his life in Canada , and won an Olympic medal fighting in their colours .
7 There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still .
8 Postvocalic /r/ will be a salient feature of those dialects which have it for speakers of dialects which do not .
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