Example sentences of "[verb] it for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 2 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 3 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 4 | and very importantly is er , a list of instructions on how to use it , in order to erm , update it for the current month . |
| 5 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 6 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 7 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 8 | Watch it for its parched melancholia : watch it for the fantastic innards-eaten Erich von Stroheim ; watch it and spot which tiny , yet central , image Spielberg nicked from it for ET . |
| 9 | I think one of the problems is , that a lot of shoppers do n't realize that they 're entering into a contract and we do n't realize it for the simple reason that most people have , as soon as you hear the word contract you have a mental image of a legal document that you sign , do n't you ? |
| 10 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 11 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 12 | The dog entered regularly in breed classes will need to be thoroughly groomed beforehand , standing still while its owner prepares it for the big event . |
| 13 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 14 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 15 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 16 | This means that you can perform operations on it , such as scanning it for the particular information you want . |
| 17 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 18 | One though , Urathion of Ullar , saw it for the world-destroying madness that it was . |
| 19 | of the population the £26.2 billion that they have had in tax cuts and use it for the national health service , pensioners , schools and all the social services . |
| 20 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 21 | It is said that there is a spell within the music , and that they always spin it for the true heir , and that it protects that heir throughout his life . |
| 22 | ‘ To be honest , I could n't even say when I 'm going to be back but I 've got to realistically think I wo n't make it for the European Cup . ’ |
| 23 | Sonny , of course , never made it for the final show . |
| 24 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 25 | The tower soon became part of the landscape , so much so , that Berners donned his artist 's hat to paint it for the local shell guide . |
| 26 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 27 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 28 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 29 | So the bee pollinates the orchid , mistaking it for the nectar-producing bellflower . |
| 30 | Kenneth Anderson , 53 , of Northumbria Walk , West Denton , Newcastle , who was jailed in 1989 for an armed robbery at a council housing office in Newcastle 's Denton Park , mistaking it for the adjoining post office , had his 12-year-prison sentence upheld by the Criminal Appeal Court in London yesterday . |