Example sentences of "i [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 2 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 3 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 4 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 5 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
| 7 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 9 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 10 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 11 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 12 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 13 | I needs it for a wager on the Brasseywing . ’ |
| 14 | The smoke sort of hangs in blue layers above the bed and I watch it for a bit . |
| 15 | There 's a fag end on the ground by my eye and I watch it for a bit . |
| 16 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 17 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 18 | and I like it for the the sports , like the |
| 19 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 20 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 21 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 22 | I watched it for a day or two , then they sent me out of that part of the house , because they knew I was watching what went on . |
| 23 | I produce it for the mainstay of the tourniquet . |
| 24 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 25 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’ |
| 27 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 28 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 29 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 30 | I try it for a bit , thinking real hard about walking . |