Example sentences of "and [verb] it for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 2 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 3 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 4 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 5 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 6 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 7 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |