Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This means that you can perform operations on it , such as scanning it for the particular information you want . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So the bee pollinates the orchid , mistaking it for the nectar-producing bellflower . |
| 7 | 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 . |