Example sentences of "[verb] it for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 2 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 3 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 4 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 5 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 6 | showing us that Pip is entering the cold , real world and has left the warmth of Joe 's forge and his chance for contentment , trading it for social status . |
| 7 | If , like me , you love the country , maybe one way you can help preserve it for future generations is to stay away from it . |
| 8 | Another stimulus to the market has come from issuers buying back bonds , to retire the debt entirely or swap it for new equity . |
| 9 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 10 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 11 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 12 | Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on . |
| 13 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 14 | And we commence this morning with Lot number one Lot number one is showing to my right here , the ivory carving at fifty pounds at fifty pounds at fifty pounds you want it for fifty pounds , thank you sir , fifty I 've got now , fifty pounds is offered at fifty five at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy , seventy five eighty five ninety ninety pounds in the back row at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , any further bids at ninety pounds at ninety pounds . |
| 15 | At fifty pounds , twenty , twenty pounds twenty pounds twenty pounds , no one want it for twenty pounds is bid , thank you , on my right , any advance on twenty ? |
| 16 | No one want it for twenty pounds is bid , thank you , twenty two pounds twenty five twenty five , any more at twenty five ? twenty five ? |
| 17 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 19 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 20 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 21 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 22 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 23 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 24 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 25 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 26 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 27 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 28 | This method is the first of its kind , and the ministry is considering developing it for commercial application . |
| 29 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 30 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |