Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money .
2 Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home .
3 Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’
4 They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke .
5 and they grassed it over for a children 's pre pre playground , now they want to turn it back , and extend the car park .
6 A few other pilots have flown Lindsey 's Corsair — Ray and Mark Hanna of the Old Flying Machine Company , Hoof Proudfoot , Chief Pilot for The Fighter Collection , who flew it out for a display in Ireland this year .
7 She fluffed it in rehearsal , but pulled it off for the cameras .
8 We took it over for a Sunday night , hiring it , promoting the gig ourselves , pushing out a lot of handbills .
9 She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour .
10 She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck .
11 It was the weekend I bought the Granada , I 'm sure it was when we went away first time I ever took it out for a run .
12 and er , they sent her er bouquet and a card for her birthday , she was seventy , and she wrote a letter back and she passed it around for every body to read , and there was , in her writing , which was very clear
13 They showed no sign of brotherly love as they battled it out for the runner-up spot before the record crowd .
14 I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian .
15 The weather God had it in for the night patrol .
16 all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens .
17 ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago .
18 He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands .
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