Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 2 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 3 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 4 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 5 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 6 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 7 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 8 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 9 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 10 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 11 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 12 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 13 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 14 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 15 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 16 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 17 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |
| 18 | Applicants were given cash grants , usually no more than £75 , and trusted to use it for the purpose they had proposed - such as buying a bicycle to do a newspaper round , obtaining equipment for a camping trip , or acquiring the wherewithal to learn a new skill or a sport . |
| 19 | She wanted to savour it for a moment . |