Example sentences of "[vb base] it for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The production stage of a drill could also be recorded by first leaving a space for you to say the item , and then have the LH say it for comparison . |
| 2 | If you already own an Action Replay cart , David , we 'll always take it back and swap it for summit or other . |
| 3 | There can be no doubt that he rewrote it for Ken . |
| 4 | So these pass on their rubbish to garbage companies , which transport it for burial to states like Ohio that still have landfill space . |
| 5 | They only want it for games do they ? |
| 6 | I mean , some people want it for income , so if they want that sort of fifteen hundred pounds coming in , and they both want access to it , I 'm quite happy to pay it into a joint account , providing it does n't actually give them a tax problem , in |
| 7 | I , I want it for Neil and Paul and even for |
| 8 | Well if there 's stuff that 's you know , you do n't want and it 's all right for jumble , I mean if you want it for jumble take it , but if not we 'll have it for jumble , I mean you know it 's erm |
| 9 | Before you actually cut the cloth , test it for strength , washing ( should you consider this a possibility ) and test it also for pressing . |
| 10 | If this has no effect , try expressing some milk before the morning feed ; refrigerate or freeze it for use later . |
| 11 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 12 | If you physically vacate your home and let it for profit — perhaps because you have decided to live permanently with a friend — under tax law , the property would be treated as an investment and subject to certain exemptions would be assessed for CGT when it was sold . |
| 13 | If that was the case then the caveman 's body would need to be ready to dive into the bush , or run after the rabbit , catch it , and kill it for food . |
| 14 | There must be enough of the right food , the temperature and habitat must be right , there must not be too many other animals that would parasitize it , or kill it for food . |
| 15 | We mistake it for reality because we are so involved , so lost in the illusion , so absorbed by the drama , that we forget we have chosen to be here , that we are willing participants in an elaborate stage production . |
| 16 | The reason why aluminium is so toxic is that living things mistake it for iron . |
| 17 | Do n't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors ; before you know where you are it 'll have swollen to three times its size and smell like a chemical factory . |
| 18 | I watch it for hours , as people demonstrate their own pleasure with consumate skill , whilst at all times considering the camera angle . |
| 19 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 20 | He pestered anyone who came along to look at his back and examine it for spots . |
| 21 | Read it for Father Christmas . |
| 22 | She would fasten the ring about her neck and wear it for Johnny , as he had asked her to do . |
| 23 | Plasmids , transposons and whip-like flagella equip it for gene transfer |
| 24 | Not since the demolition gangs had moved into that area south of the river to knock down the old tenements and clear it for redevelopment . |
| 25 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 26 | Such are the smooth , easy driving qualities of the big-engined Corrado ( the same engine is also available in the VW Golf and Vento saloons ) that I suspect that this is the sort of car that drivers will appreciate when they own it , be sorry when they sell it , and describe it for years as the finest car they ever owned . |
| 27 | That can mean only that the common agricultural policy is to be reformed in such a way as to take money from the United Kingdom and give it for cohesion to countries outside . |
| 28 | There are those who give little of the much which they have — and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome . |
| 29 | Here we might note that they are also not in Edinburgh : we know this for B because B claims to have to go to Edinburgh , and go here means movement away from the place of the speaker at the time of speaking ; we know it for A also , because if A is in Edinburgh , then B's having to go to Edinburgh can hardly be an excuse for B not going to A today . |
| 30 | The seller can , if he so wishes , simply keep the bill to maturity and present it for payment ( as in 6 . ) . |