Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 2 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 3 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 4 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 5 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |
| 6 | Under these circumstances , all you can do is try to re-align the board on the artwork and expose it for a further period , but you may well have to scrap that attempt and start again with a freshly-coated board . |
| 7 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 8 | Like my man in Hampstead , he does n't trust people to collect money and use it for the purpose they say they will . |
| 9 | He slammed the full magazine into the weapon and gripped it for a moment , the veins in his temple throbbing angrily . |
| 10 | She caught Stephen 's eye and held it for a second . |
| 11 | You can run clip-art through a drawing package and edit it for a more personal touch very quickly , and the printing quality is consistent , which is n't always the case with bitmaps . |
| 12 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 13 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 14 | All you do is add water and leave it for a month . |
| 15 | Place the stem of a stick of celery in some dyed water and leave it for a few hours . |
| 16 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 17 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 18 | If we take our budget-fixing example and examine it for a moment , we realise that two separate things may be going on . |
| 19 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 20 | Kelly returned his kiss and held it for a fraction longer than she should have . |
| 21 | Yes , er maybe I would n't have mentioned it , but er , well , that 's a story of one like dozens of people , congratulating us , that at long last we 're going to do something about the environment and protect it for the future of our children , and they consider it money well spent , and asking the question , why was n't it never done before . |
| 22 | It 's also a source of food and sport for Lithuanians who ride and ski in their forests and hunt game and prepare it for the table . |
| 23 | We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence . |
| 24 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 25 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 26 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 27 | At this stage , it is a good idea to cover the picture with glass and leave it for a while . |
| 28 | In each case , the wizard must pick up the book and caress it for a minimum of 1 hour . |
| 29 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 30 | Nick reached across the table , took her hand and held it for a moment . |