Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight |
| 4 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 5 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And at the end of the evening he said , ‘ Give me your number , I 'd like to have it for the future . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd like to take it for a spin . |
| 9 | but I should like to examine it for a little longer . |
| 10 | I think I 'll stop using it for a bit . |
| 11 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 12 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 13 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 15 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 17 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 18 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 20 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 21 | ( 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 . ) |
| 22 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 23 | it finishes on the eighteen so I 'll have to book it for the previous Friday so Harry says oh that 's great it 'll be my birthday too . |
| 24 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 25 | The playing of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Peter Eötrös , who had given the work several times before this 1991 Prom performance , seems immensely confident and assured , all the complexities mastered ; and the recording quality is so good ( and the audience so quiet ) I would have taken it for a ‘ state-of-theart ’ studio job . |
| 26 | Part of the LEATGS grant might for example , be delegated for schools to administer , but they would have to spend it for the specified purpose of in-service training . |
| 27 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 28 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 29 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |
| 30 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |