Example sentences of "[verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 32 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 33 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 34 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 35 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 36 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 37 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 38 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 39 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 40 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 41 | ‘ I did n't believe it for a single moment , darling , ’ she repeated earnestly . |
| 42 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 43 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 44 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 45 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 46 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 47 | Watch it for its parched melancholia : watch it for the fantastic innards-eaten Erich von Stroheim ; watch it and spot which tiny , yet central , image Spielberg nicked from it for ET . |
| 48 | No matter how worthwhile a project seems we attack it for the hidden and sinister purposes behind it . |
| 49 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 50 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 51 | The bank has no plans to put the EDI application back onto the X400 network , because it uses a program developed by Brussels-based systems integrator Acse SA , which collects the information from the X25 mailbox , stores it on magnetic disk , checks it for the Binary Condensed Algorithm code number , and checks it against internal and external data . |
| 52 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 53 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 54 | I think one of the problems is , that a lot of shoppers do n't realize that they 're entering into a contract and we do n't realize it for the simple reason that most people have , as soon as you hear the word contract you have a mental image of a legal document that you sign , do n't you ? |
| 55 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 56 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 57 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 58 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 59 | The dog entered regularly in breed classes will need to be thoroughly groomed beforehand , standing still while its owner prepares it for the big event . |
| 60 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |