Example sentences of "it [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean s Kingsley Black has stood it in here to the second post now if he does n't feel he can get enough on it to go for goal he should keep it in the danger area just turn it back across the face of the goal and let one of the other lads have a go at it , Collimore or Rozario . |
| 2 | It equips for battle |
| 3 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 4 | defendant acquiescing in a plaintiffs inexcusable , inordinate and prejudicial delay in prosecuting an action was thereby debarred from having it dismissed for want of prosecution . |
| 5 | Standalone it goes for $1,000 and $1,300 respectively . |
| 6 | If the sergeant got there before you and did n't find you , he would tap with his signalling stick and it goes for miles in the middle of the night — give him a little tinkle , and you walk towards one another . |
| 7 | When the Society heard in July 1861 that the Board was to remove the Bondgate bubbler the cattle fountain that was turning the highway to mire it asked for permission to replace it . |
| 8 | It asked for powers to use animal or electric traction and trams or motor buses . |
| 9 | It asked for interest rates to be lowered even further . |
| 10 | Where the term breached is a less important term , a warranty , breach merely entitles the victim of it to sue for damages and does not allow the victim to end the contract . |
| 11 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 12 | Estimated at £20–30,000 , it sold for £32,000 ( $48,000 ) . |
| 13 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 14 | Initially knocked down for $160,000 , a bidding dispute led to its immediate reappearance where it sold for $50,000 ( £31,250 ) . |
| 15 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 16 | For all that it sold for $46,200 ( £30,800 ) ( est. $30–50,000 ) . |
| 17 | It sold for £23,000 ( $34,500 ) . |
| 18 | He put the Old Rectory at Stoney Stanton , Blaby , Leicestershire , on the market for £325,000 in 1990 but it sold for £239,000 — a 25 per cent drop . |
| 19 | A design for a tapestry by Rubens set a record when it sold for £748,000 . |
| 20 | A record for a sword was set by lot 239 , a Fukuoka Ichimonji Tachi from the Kamakura period ( second half of the thirteenth century ) signed Ichi ; estimated at $200–300,000 , it sold for $380,000 ( £218,400 ) to a European private collector . |
| 21 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 22 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
| 23 | AT&T Microelectronics has bought back worldwide marketing rights in the ISDN chip it developed for Sun Sparcstation 10s and has contracted with CoSystems Inc to sell and support the widget . |
| 24 | Our general topic of discussion is perceptual consciousness and the problem that it constitutes for physicalism . |
| 25 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 26 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 27 | It provided for nationalization of forests , the sale of some state-owned industries to provide money for agricultural development , some worker participation in prophet sharing , revision of electoral laws ( including significant rights for women ) , the formation of a Literacy Corps in an attempt to take education to the countryside and . |
| 28 | It provided for court confiscation of convicted drug dealers ' assets , and the granting of authority for telephone tapping and surveillance of and access to computer systems of suspected drug criminals . |
| 29 | It provided for cuts in support prices to reduce overproduction , and payment of compensation directly to farmers , on condition that all but the smallest farmers " set aside " 15 per cent of their land from production . |
| 30 | It provided for abortion without restriction until the foetus was capable of sustaining life outside its mother 's womb . |