Example sentences of "it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |
| 2 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 3 | The first customers for the new service will be using it for a variety of applications . |
| 4 | No , I 'm doing it for A level . |
| 5 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 6 | I stood it for a bit and then I 'm afraid I said to him that what was sauce for the goose and at least I was n't married . ’ |
| 7 | The smoke sort of hangs in blue layers above the bed and I watch it for a bit . |
| 8 | We both look at it for a bit . |
| 9 | I think about it for a bit . |
| 10 | I think about it for a bit . |
| 11 | I open my eyes and think about it for a bit . |
| 12 | I stick the fire on in my room and warm myself by it for a bit . |
| 13 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 14 | I think about it for a bit , then I ask her if I can afford some sandwiches . |
| 15 | I think about it for a bit , then I get up and go over to the shops . |
| 16 | I think about it for a bit , then I go in . |
| 17 | I try it for a bit , thinking real hard about walking . |
| 18 | There 's a fag end on the ground by my eye and I watch it for a bit . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , skip it for a bit ! |
| 20 | Not to say , ‘ I ca n't do it or I ca n't remember it ’ , but stop it for a bit and then go back to it , and then you 'll find you 've got it . |
| 21 | I think I 'll stop using it for a bit . |
| 22 | He wo n't need it for a bit if this weather goes on . |
| 23 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 24 | I might stick it on a flying lead and wander around with it for a bit and see where it 's best . |
| 25 | Now let Clare stir it for a bit and then let Amy have a turn , but do n't slop it every where , or else you wo n't have a . |
| 26 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |
| 27 | I shall keep it for a bit longer Clare |
| 28 | The movement for a national Nonconformist forum , and with it for a union in some form of English Nonconformist churches , was a product of the 1890s . |
| 29 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
| 30 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |