Example sentences of "[vb past] it for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
2 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
5 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
6 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
7 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
8 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
9 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
10 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
11 | One though , Urathion of Ullar , saw it for the world-destroying madness that it was . |
12 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
13 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
14 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
15 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
16 | Sonny , of course , never made it for the final show . |
17 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
18 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
19 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
20 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
21 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
22 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
23 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
24 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |