Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , of course the guy with the sixty per cent just kept saying , you know , up yours , in the nicest possible way , you know , it may work for you , but why should I do it when I get no benefit from it , and I own sixty per cent of this outfit . |
| 2 | The fact that your fish has doubled in size since you bought it should speak for itself . |
| 3 | Yet all women would agree that , whatever their make-up , it should care for their skin . |
| 4 | The Soviet leadership appeared concerned that it should ensure for itself a role in any future Middle East peace settlement . |
| 5 | For a southern French town , still very much in the ambience of the Pyrenees , it is graceless , with less to show than it should have for its history as a local capital , having twice been laid waste in the sixteenth century by Protestant raiders . |
| 6 | But none of this is the essence of Mrs Thatcher 's problem which is rather that , on the essential questions of economic management , the government gives the impression either of having lost its momentum or of having decided that it must settle for something well short of what Mrs Thatcher seemed to promise in the way of reducing the size of the public sector and also the burden of taxation . |
| 7 | If society is to impose extra burdens on farmers ' costs of production in order to preserve or go back to an idyllic view of the countryside , which may never have existed anyway , it must pay for it . |
| 8 | It must compete for their attention with many other features of the text which must seem equally , if not more , important when it comes to matching book to class , or book to the prevailing personal , curricular or literary purpose of the lesson , week , term , or year . |
| 9 | Blimy , I said , it must have for you in there . |
| 10 | Now it must fend for itself , without parental care . |
| 11 | It might do for you when you get a job . |
| 12 | It might work for you , with a lot of people it does n't , because there 's a lot of R keying involved . |
| 13 | It does not require that the woman be able to appreciate the significance of sexual intercourse or the implications which it might have for her . |
| 14 | I think it 'll pay for itself all right ! ’ |
| 15 | A person does not buy the product but rather buy what it 'll do for him or her . |
| 16 | It 'll do for you in the end . ’ |
| 17 | er th it 'll install for you , so . |
| 18 | And if I 'm practising and it sounds good it 'll work for me too . |
| 19 | Such was Prussia , where a new system of recruiting , based on the allocation to each regiment of a defined area , a canton , upon which it could draw for its manpower , was introduced in the 1730s . |
| 20 | I do n't want you to drop this exhibition , think what it could do for you . |
| 21 | It could pay for you to have your car adapted , so you keep your mobility and independence . |
| 22 | When your skin was young , it could fend for itself . |
| 23 | A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening . |
| 24 | It could work for us . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If it could come for us just a little way away I would n't mind , ’ Gurder quavered . |
| 26 | It would control referrals to providers outside the district and it would pay for them at negotiated prices . |
| 27 | It would control referrals to providers outside the District and it would pay for them at negotiated prices . |
| 28 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 29 | This no doubt guaranteed their trustworthiness to their new comrades and may well have persuaded them that if communism was for their brothers then it would do for them too . |
| 30 | with like a navy stripe and erm an anchor on each side , it 's quite nice cos she 's got , I thought it would do for her holidays |