Example sentences of "[vb base] it for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks . |
| 2 | Director Chris Pond said : ‘ People will be faced with difficult choices , such as whether to use water for baths , or save it for cooking or to water the flower pots . ’ |
| 3 | I like it for toast June . |
| 4 | on this , and I 'll reiterate this , is the process that we go through as I understand it for introducing procedures , is that we take a diagonal slice through the organization er in other words there 's a draft procedure produced . |
| 5 | It 's a company flat ; I keep it for entertaining mostly . |
| 6 | ‘ We use it for taking rock from the local quarries . ’ |
| 7 | See M er Martin tried to get it used as people use it for meeting rooms and things but er you see you ca n't park either can you ? |
| 8 | As the horse learns from the voice to listen to the seat , leg and rein aids then you gradually dispense with the voice and only use it for rewarding when he is good . |
| 9 | Collect water from gutters in a rainwater butt , and use it for watering plants outdoors ( not in greenhouse or indoors ) . |
| 10 | A letter to Dr. Watson from the Sir C.J. Liston Foulis Trust , dated 14th October 1991 states , ‘ Our clients have instructed us not to continue the lease either on short-time or long term basis and therefore the ground with the buildings there-on belongs to our clients outright and the residents of Juniper Green have no right to occupy it or use it for playing tennis or for any other purpose . ’ |
| 11 | I spect they use it for driving their vans through . |
| 12 | The choice of hi-hats and cymbals is excellent , and I often use it for programming percussion . ’ |
| 13 | If the police can exploit the technique for measuring the speed of road hogs , dare we hope to find that bats use it for measuring the speed of insect prey ? |
| 14 | The reason why there 's so much space above our heads here is simple : the climate controllers use it for inducing weather conditions for the whole of Arcady . ’ |
| 15 | I mean we were in a particular discussion last night I mean that chap was making a particular point and we were able to ask questions and that was very useful and it helped everything else and as a result I have a view that Hydro Electric have a certain commitment to the community and I respect it for having that commitment . |
| 16 | They do it for to keep him going and then they 'll say he says you know I 'm used to getting up at half four and going so many miles every morning for a big jog . |
| 17 | Yes I know it , erm I suggest we type it for faxing , have we got fax for these ? |
| 18 | Opponents condemn it for making profit from punishment . |
| 19 | We take it for granted . |
| 20 | We take it for granted , but it is important that the emergent nations of the Third World — themselves , many of them , deeply divided culturally , linguistically and genetically — should see what we have achieved , and where we have fallen short . |
| 21 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 22 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 23 | And Italians seem to have the most matter-of-fact attitude to drinking wine ; they take it for granted , just like the bread and salt on the table . |
| 24 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 25 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 26 | We take it for granted that we have light to see by , natural or artificial . |
| 27 | That 's so long ago , hillwalkers now take it for granted ! |
| 28 | And unless he speaks in a very odd way we take it for granted that he knows what he is saying . |
| 29 | Graham Murdock and Peter Golding , like other Marxists , take it for granted that there is a relationship between ‘ ownership and control ’ . |
| 30 | In most physiological psychology we take it for granted that lesions will centre on the structure selected by the experimenter . |