Example sentences of "[verb] it for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 2 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 3 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 4 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 5 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 6 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 7 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 8 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 9 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 10 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 11 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 12 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 13 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 14 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 15 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 16 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 17 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 18 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 19 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 20 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 21 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 22 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 23 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't believe it for a single moment , darling , ’ she repeated earnestly . |
| 25 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 26 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 27 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 28 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 29 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 30 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |