Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and [vb past] it for " 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 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 3 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 4 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 5 | He slammed the full magazine into the weapon and gripped it for a moment , the veins in his temple throbbing angrily . |
| 6 | Once , she would not only have poured his coffee for him , she would have spooned in the sugar and stirred it for him , too . |
| 7 | Mike Duffy , a sound engineer with Britain 's most successful production team of Stock , Aitken and Waterman , heard Kylie 's rendition of the song and re-recorded it for Mushroom . |
| 8 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 9 | He led her to the door and opened it for her . |
| 10 | He took a dressing-gown from the back of the door and held it for her . |
| 11 | However , perhaps the National Deaf Club 's most distinguished member was Arthur James Wilson , who succeeded S. Bright Lucas to the presidency and held it for the rest of his life . |
| 12 | In September 1985 , the second defendant collected the reliquary and packed it for shipment to the plaintiff , Cleveland Museum of Art . |
| 13 | When the Prime Warden had laid the stone and tested it for square and level , the Rector of Stockport offered prayers for success , and the ceremony concluded with cheers for the Goldsmiths and their munificence . |
| 14 | She rolled effortfully across to the draining-board and fetched it for him . |
| 15 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 16 | First , I would clean the fireside , get the fire going , put a clean cloth on the table and lay it for breakfast . |