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Example sentences of "[verb] it for [art] [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	Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare .
4	You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’
5	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 ) .
6	and very importantly is er , a list of instructions on how to use it , in order to erm , update it for the current month .
7	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 .
8	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 .
9	We tried it for a whole year .
10	EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price .
11	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 .
12	‘ You must have done it for a good reason .
13	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 .
14	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 .
15	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 .
16	I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song .
17	I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear !
18	I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time .
19	Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year .
20	You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you
21	Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time .
22	I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one
23	This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time .
24	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 .
25	Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day .
26	‘ I did n't believe it for a single moment , darling , ’ she repeated earnestly .
27	Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time .
28	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 ?
29	No , he 's had it for a long time .
30	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 .