Example sentences of "and [verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 3 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 6 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 7 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 8 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 11 | of the population the £26.2 billion that they have had in tax cuts and use it for the national health service , pensioners , schools and all the social services . |
| 12 | 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 . |