Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked .
2 John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches .
3 ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way .
4 They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living .
5 If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter .
6 And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour
7 Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side .
8 Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion .
9 Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment .
10 Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute
11 Let's have a look at how you manage your time at the moment and how you 'd like to reorganize it for the future .
12 Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight
13 Shah declined , but said he would be willing to help finance it for a fee .
14 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 .
15 Got to use it for the paint .
16 Because if we 're going to use it for the ragtime and er
17 I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ?
18 Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest .
19 I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that .
20 Cos I 've got to finish it for the morning .
21 And at the end of the evening he said , ‘ Give me your number , I 'd like to have it for the future . ’
22 I 'd like to take it for a spin .
23 Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required .
24 And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future .
25 And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future .
26 Only got to do it for a second .
27 I think I 'll stop using it for a bit .
28 The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 .
29 Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk .
30 He decided to wear it for the rest of his life .
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