Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 2 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 3 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 4 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 5 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 6 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 7 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 8 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 9 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 10 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 11 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 12 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 13 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 14 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 15 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 16 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 17 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 18 | Let's have a look at how you manage your time at the moment and how you 'd like to reorganize it for the future . |
| 19 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 20 | Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight |
| 21 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 22 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 23 | Shah declined , but said he would be willing to help finance it for a fee . |
| 24 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 25 | Got to use it for the paint . |
| 26 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 27 | Because if we 're going to use it for the ragtime and er |
| 28 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 29 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 30 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |