Example sentences of "and [verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 4 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 5 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 6 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 7 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 8 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 11 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 12 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 13 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 14 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 17 | Under these circumstances , all you can do is try to re-align the board on the artwork and expose it for a further period , but you may well have to scrap that attempt and start again with a freshly-coated board . |
| 18 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 19 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 22 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
| 23 | Place the stem of a stick of celery in some dyed water and leave it for a few hours . |
| 24 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 25 | She poured the coffee black , and left it for the three of them to add milk and sugar . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lisa struck a pose of melodramatic fervour and held it for a few seconds before slumping back in her seat . |