Example sentences of "for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony is to be admitted but … wait for it … to yet another hospital ! |
| 2 | I am obliged to use the awkward and inadequate word ‘ Art-history ’ for it . |
| 3 | The entry for number 291 , a portrait of a woman , is a fair example of method : ‘ The quality of ( the picture ) seems sufficiently high for it to be acceptable as from Cranach 's own hand . |
| 4 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 5 | Suicide tends now to command sympathy , even when the reasons for it are hard to understand . |
| 6 | By the end of it you 're no all that sure whether teachers get long holidays or no ( they do , though most of them have to work hard for it ) , and whether parents should go and fuck themselves . |
| 7 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 8 | You put in for it . |
| 9 | I 'll have to get out and look for it , he said . |
| 10 | Revulsion at the thought that I am responsible for it . |
| 11 | Is this all you have to show for it ? he wrote . |
| 12 | As always happens , will have mastered it completely just when I have no more use for it . |
| 13 | Sat waiting for it to come back to life . |
| 14 | From the moment you take the big glass off my hands you will have the sole responsibility for it . |
| 15 | Depending on its strength and the time required for it to reach maturity , a beer must stand for 12 to 48 hours before it can be drunk . |
| 16 | The style has virtually disappeared from the south-east of England but there is still considerable demand for it in the West Midlands , Wales and the North-west . |
| 17 | If the pubs are taken away then the community is the poorer for it . ’ |
| 18 | The Prospect Inn has two of its decorative lino floors intact , although the owners , Whitbread , destroyed the original pole sign outside when the tenants asked for it to be repaired . |
| 19 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
| 20 | One City caterer has found a novel use for it in the larder . |
| 21 | There is still a place for it , mainly in institutional catering , but most people think it tastes like cardboard . ’ |
| 22 | But , unfortunately , there are also restaurants cashing in on the brasserie bandwagon by serving cheap , cheerful and desperately trendy bistro food in designer surroundings — and charging the earth for it . |
| 23 | ‘ In which case , ’ Arabella Buckley pronounced sturdily , ‘ there 's only one thing for it . |
| 24 | Constable Quince was new to the job and , in Bramble 's estimation , unsuited for it . |
| 25 | I 'm just waiting to see who I have to thank for it . ’ |
| 26 | There was nothing for it : I would have to run away . |
| 27 | It is a film about the outsider in history , identity and assimilation and the price for it . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's up to you , you 've paid for it . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd go for it if I were you , ’ he said , and he gave me a little peck on the cheek . |
| 30 | Remember to keep all the topsoil you remove ; you 're bound to find a use for it later ! |