Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How about your Christmas card this year ? why not knit one and them photograph it for a really professional look ? |
| 2 | and I like it for the the sports , like the |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 4 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 5 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 6 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 7 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 8 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 9 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 10 | The smoke sort of hangs in blue layers above the bed and I watch it for a bit . |
| 11 | There 's a fag end on the ground by my eye and I watch it for a bit . |
| 12 | four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then |
| 13 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |
| 14 | Yeah , like somebody else , like , you 're walking down the street , like , you 're in a house and , and you check it for a minute and you 're like |
| 15 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 16 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 17 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 18 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 19 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 20 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 21 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 22 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 23 | We want satisfaction , we want completeness in life , and so we try this and it gives it for a moment , but when it 's finished we 've got ta try something else . |