Example sentences of "and [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 'll I 'll I 'll ring them up and book it for eight . |
| 2 | ‘ One is always grateful for that kind of comic genius who takes your script and plays it for everything that 's in it , ’ as Shaffer told me . |
| 3 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 4 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
| 5 | The Goths , however , objected to this national treasure being handed over , and redeemed it for 200,000 solidi . |
| 6 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 7 | ‘ We wish , my brother and I , we wish you to take some of our money and to invest it for us in — in such places where you invest your own . ’ |
| 8 | If you buy an item at £1 and sell it for £1.50 , how much percentage profit have you made ? |
| 9 | He had originally intended to polish up the wood and sell it for five shillings , but when he was fortunate enough to obtain the gramophone he realised he should repair the machine and install it in the cabinet . |
| 10 | Sir Haydn 's family intended to seek an Abandonment Order for the line and sell it for scrap . |
| 11 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 12 | He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you . |
| 13 | On the basis of the principle of participation , for example , it is possible for man to justify controlling nature and using it for his own ends . |
| 14 | You have been surrounded by speech and using it for most of your life . |
| 15 | Guy Hunt , the Governor of Alabama , was indicted on Dec. 28 by a grand jury in Montgomery on charges of appropriating US$200,000 from his inaugural fund and using it for personal purposes . |
| 16 | I stole the candle from its socket and sold it for a crust of bread and a stoup of water from an ale wife . |
| 17 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 18 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |
| 19 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 20 | She felt an overwhelming urge to lick her lips and fought it for a while till her treacherous tongue simply shot out — only to be retracted slowly , under Lucenzo 's predatory eyes . |
| 21 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 22 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | Elia Kazan kept the cameras rolling and caught it for posterity . |
| 24 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 25 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 26 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 27 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 28 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 29 | The taxi bill arose after he opened an account for Nalgo with Mersey Cabs without authorisation and used it for his own personal use as well as official business . |
| 30 | Er we we go in and sell the advertising if they er we 'll take over as soon as the current supply runs out we we 'll start offering er and supply it for them . |