Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If this has no effect , try expressing some milk before the morning feed ; refrigerate or freeze it for use later . |
| 3 | Christmas looks to be a time for burying the hatchet or exhuming it for re-examination . |
| 4 | You must not subsequently display or offer it for sale as your own work ! |
| 5 | Other than using it for business purposes , there are no restrictions — except , of course , that you must not overstep your borrowing limit . |
| 6 | The state-owned Scottish Nuclear company , which operates Scotland 's two nuclear plants , has decided to " dry store " most of its spent nuclear fuel , rather than send it for reprocessing at the British Nuclear Fuels plant at Sellafield . |
| 7 | Sir Haydn 's family intended to seek an Abandonment Order for the line and sell it for scrap . |
| 8 | Elia Kazan kept the cameras rolling and caught it for posterity . |
| 9 | If you already own an Action Replay cart , David , we 'll always take it back and swap it for summit or other . |
| 10 | It was really done with much relish , and to prove his efficiency in all branches of His Majesty 's Navy and Fishing Fleets , Lord Shelley went into Uxbridge , bought the best cod he could find , and insisted on cooking it himself and serving it for dinner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , very few people will appreciate just how much time , effort and sheer innovative thinking has gone into making the engine look similar to how it would look had we merely pressure washed the outside and mounted it for display . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She runs her finger slowly along his chin , as if inspecting it for dust . |
| 15 | Webb 's Patent Sewer Lamps , which extracted gas from the sewers below the streets and burned it for street lighting . |
| 16 | Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I just wondered what your response to it was , seeing as er what you 're doing is getting information to which you 're not entitled , and selling it for money to other people . |
| 20 | The seller can , if he so wishes , simply keep the bill to maturity and present it for payment ( as in 6 . ) . |
| 21 | Eliza Bunce was the widow of the Revd John Bunce ( died 1786 ) , vicar of St Stephen 's , who encouraged Dixon 's writing and corrected it for publication . |
| 22 | It is therefore essential to find a form of activity we enjoy so that we are happy to practise it two or three times a week and continue it for life . |
| 23 | In September 1985 , the second defendant collected the reliquary and packed it for shipment to the plaintiff , Cleveland Museum of Art . |
| 24 | Traditionally with relational database management systems companies would batch load data from the mainframe on maybe a a once a day or once a week basis and load that information onto the database systems and use it for decision support . |
| 25 | Trying to teach a concept and use it for communication at the same time is an impossible task . |
| 26 | They then run it into pits , break it up , and use it for road stone or alternatively , the molten slag is run over water-cooled rollers where it forms little tiny pellets with a high air content which are used for making insulation blocks . |
| 27 | First , I would clean the fireside , get the fire going , put a clean cloth on the table and lay it for breakfast . |
| 28 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 29 | I thought ‘ interesting ’ and kept it for pet for about three weeks ; I called it George , and people would give me extra helpings ‘ because you 're eating for two now . ’ |
| 30 | Mike Duffy , a sound engineer with Britain 's most successful production team of Stock , Aitken and Waterman , heard Kylie 's rendition of the song and re-recorded it for Mushroom . |