Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , obeying an impulse she barely understood , she took the silver medallion out of the inner pocket of her bag , where she 'd zipped it for safekeeping , and fastened the chain round her neck . |
| 2 | Mingling with that of David was Anthony 's , sounding far happier and more relaxed than she had heard it for weeks . |
| 3 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 4 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 5 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 6 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |
| 7 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 8 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 9 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 10 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 11 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 12 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 13 | Five hours later officers admitted the £9,000 Bedford Astra had gone missing before they had checked it for fingerprints . |
| 14 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 15 | And I took it and slew them all : seven thousand warriors and old men , together with women and old women and maidens , for I had consecrated it for Ashtar-Chemosh . ’ |
| 16 | Remember what she said on that video film when when he when she wanted to do it for too holidays . |
| 17 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 18 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 19 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |