Example sentences of "and [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I stole the candle from its socket and sold it for a crust of bread and a stoup of water from an ale wife . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His aims are thus established from the outset both to record the evidence he has gathered and to evaluate it for the purposes of determining the truth . |
| 8 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Think yourself into it and hold it for a while . |
| 14 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 15 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 16 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 21 | in the end , Graham decided to donate the tank , equipment and fish and maintain it for the hospital free of charge . |
| 22 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 23 | You may decide that this is not the sort of fish for a small tank and exchange it for a more suitable species . |
| 24 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 25 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 26 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 27 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 28 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 29 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 30 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |