Example sentences of "[vb past] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 2 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 3 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 4 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 5 | On Feb. 26 the policy was presented to the Sejm ( lower chamber ) , which referred it for a report by its economic , finance and budgetary committee . |
| 6 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 7 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 8 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 9 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 10 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 11 | Melcarek and Brown then used it for a study of the effects of chill stress on both prompt and delayed fluorescence . |
| 12 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 13 | The Department of Transportation in Maryland , for example , used it for an interactive touch-screen system providing tourists with video , textual , graphical and audio information about the city and its transport network . |
| 14 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 15 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 16 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 17 | She tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 18 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 19 | He actually came into Frankfurt in his hired BMW , then changed it for a Mercedes . |
| 20 | yeah , cos you changed it for a |
| 21 | ‘ We had it fitted out in the States , changed it for the case provided by the Pentagon just before take-off last night . ’ |
| 22 | He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage . |
| 23 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 24 | But again Hal believed it for the truth . |
| 25 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 26 | Bosses swapped it for a £900 Skoda . |
| 27 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 28 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 29 | A wealthy man bought a truck and the poorer partner drove it for a wage . |
| 30 | 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 . |