Example sentences of "and [vb past] it for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
2 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
3 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
4 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
5 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
6 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
7 | We have cut out the instructions and kept it for next time . |
8 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
9 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
10 | The result was the partnership which bought Twr-y-Felin in St David 's and ran it for 18 months until Phil moved on to pursue other interests . |
11 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |