Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it for [art] " in BNC.

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1 She took the boxed flower and then , after holding it for a moment and wondering what to do with it , laid it down alongside her place setting .
2 Finally , one other began to use heroin almost by default in that he and a friend bought heroin with the specific aim of selling it for a profit .
3 ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living .
4 While BT has the right to terminate the deal between years three and six , it also has the option of extending it for a further three years .
5 This means that you can perform operations on it , such as scanning it for the particular information you want .
6 Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well .
7 Some word processing functions will apparently be bucked up and international versions are due soon , including localizing it for the company 's new exclusive Japanese distributor Sumisho Electronics .
8 We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation .
9 Therefore we are not justified in using it for a quality of material things .
10 At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before .
11 Despite their criticism , peer review is the method most commonly used within the Research Councils for evaluating the scientific contributions of their own staff , in addition to using it for the evaluation of research proposals .
12 We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’
13 Over the years various attempts will have been made to insulate houses like these , but these are unlikely to match modern standards , and it will pay you to check out your existing level of insulation , with a view to improving it for the future .
14 Apply it with a roller in a thin , even coat and let it dry without disturbing it for a good 24 hours .
15 World champion , and well on the way to winning it for a second time .
16 The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause .
17 Occam gives extra scope for this because it is a parallel language : one can improve a program not only by reducing the overall amount of calculation , but also by configuring it for the ( possibly parallel ) machine on which it is to be run .
18 ‘ I hate cocaine , ’ he said finally , and he surprised me by saying it for the Maggot had always struck me as one of life 's rebels .
19 Its efficacy could then be assessed by substituting it for the dictionary definitions in the overlap program .
20 If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away .
21 They 've economised by reducing it for the handout .
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