Example sentences of "to it for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life .
2 I soon noticed myself rapidly approaching a fallen tree over the surface of the river and as I rushed towards it I clung on to it for dear life .
3 The Hungerfords of Farleigh Hungerford , the all-powerful local family in medieval times , bought Iford , which was then a mill , in 1369 and held on to it for four centuries .
4 It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook .
5 It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook .
6 It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook .
7 We also learnt quite a lot as to how we should do it next time , so when we now to it for senior managers erm come April May time er and hopefully that er training will be improved on the benefit going through .
8 Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further .
9 People looking to it for educational use , or a big company HQ .
10 The official table of appointments in 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which lasted until it was slightly modified by Catherine 's son Paul in 1800 , provided for each mission abroad to have two students regularly attached to it for these purposes .
11 But she took a dislike to it for some reason , she would n't go in it .
12 First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative .
13 He 's also preparing an interim guide to it for imminent launch .
14 By the next season 1923–24 , the outside-right position was Harry 's own — and he held on to it for another decade .
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