Example sentences of "and [verb] it for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 2 | I stole the candle from its socket and sold it for a crust of bread and a stoup of water from an ale wife . |
| 3 | She felt an overwhelming urge to lick her lips and fought it for a while till her treacherous tongue simply shot out — only to be retracted slowly , under Lucenzo 's predatory eyes . |
| 4 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence . |
| 6 | Think yourself into it and hold it for a while . |
| 7 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 8 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 9 | If we take our budget-fixing example and examine it for a moment , we realise that two separate things may be going on . |
| 10 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 11 | in the end , Graham decided to donate the tank , equipment and fish and maintain it for the hospital free of charge . |
| 12 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 13 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ Money 's available to George , but there 's no point in him rushing out and spending it for the hell of it . |
| 15 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 16 | Rebuild the Roman villa and use it for a hydro and health farm . |
| 17 | Like my man in Hampstead , he does n't trust people to collect money and use it for the purpose they say they will . |
| 18 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 19 | And then when I get to school , I do , I have to pour all the water into the tank , and leave it for a couple of hours and at break time put the fish into the into the mix water |
| 20 | At this stage , it is a good idea to cover the picture with glass and leave it for a while . |
| 21 | All you do is add water and leave it for a month . |
| 22 | To find the response , the mirror allocation can be located at point 3 by striking a line from 2 through 1 and extending it for a distance equal to 21 ; i.e. 31 = 12 . |
| 23 | Try sending a fax to the main Leeds Utd number ( coming up ) , and mark it for the attention of the SOUVENIR SHOP . |
| 24 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 25 | He was in a position to adjust his price to maximise potential gain for the firm , and to minimise it for the client . |
| 26 | In each case , the wizard must pick up the book and caress it for a minimum of 1 hour . |
| 27 | You could put lipstick and some feathers on that one and take it for a walk . ’ |
| 28 | By closing time the place was like an alcoholic Turkish bath , and leaving it for the trip over Stonesdale Moor in the lashing rain was a sore wrench indeed . |
| 29 | It 's also a source of food and sport for Lithuanians who ride and ski in their forests and hunt game and prepare it for the table . |
| 30 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |