Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] it for the [adj] " 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 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 .
3 The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time .
4 Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 .
5 She poured the coffee black , and left it for the three of them to add milk and sugar .
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