Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manville toyed with it for a few moments , imagining the corridors of the Pentagon and White House alive with zooming figures , grey-flannel covered asses farting tongues of flame . |
| 2 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 3 | Schellenberg brooded about it for a moment . |
| 4 | Jean pondered on it for a day while we held our breath . |
| 5 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 6 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 7 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 8 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 9 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 10 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 11 | On those grounds , the court in reply to the questions referred to it for a preliminary ruling by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , by order of 10 March 1989 , hereby rules : |
| 12 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 13 | Most of the 25,000 audience in the Palais Bercy could not see the platform because of the enormous scaffold bridge built across it for the cameras . |
| 14 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 15 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
| 16 | Lydia thought about it for a while , before she spoke . |
| 17 | She gave me my hand back , but let her velveted fingers play with it for a second or two . |
| 18 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 19 | Both men listened to it for a moment , then Duclos stood up restlessly and walked over to his gramophone . |
| 20 | As she closed the door after her , Mr Kronweiser looked at it for a minute or two in puzzlement . |
| 21 | Preston stared at it for a moment , frowning . |
| 22 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 23 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 24 | Mr. Harrison relies on it for the statement in the judgment of Lord Denman C.J. , at p. 683 : ‘ The debtee 's discharge of one joint and several debtor is a discharge of all . ’ |