Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it for " in BNC.
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1 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
2 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
3 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
4 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
5 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
6 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
7 | And my brothers used to ride it , so I used to ride it and I rode it for miles ! |
8 | Like tea — we have the same brand each week — but if I know it 's cheaper in one shop I go into that shop , just to get that one thing — like I got it for 1 //6; this week and it 's usually 1 //11; — I like to get the best , but cheaper . |
9 | However I might be able to get erm the copy that I Eddie 's copy is n't entirely legal erm and I got it for him . |
10 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
11 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
12 | Well I do n't want everybody to start well I got it for christmas really . |
13 | I got it for six months , te |
14 | I got it for my eighteenth you see . |
15 | Oh I tried it for her |
16 | ‘ No , I found it for myself , ’ she said , trying not to show her irritation . |
17 | I drew it for him . |
18 | I used it for areas hard to reach with chisel and mallet , and expect that when carving delicate work it has the advantage of not disturbing the workpiece with sudden strikes . |
19 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
20 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
21 | but er I was the only one that ever used it and I used it about once or twice and then , like like , I used it for about |
22 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
23 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
24 | I claimed it for my own . ’ |
25 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
26 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
27 | I finished it for her . |
28 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
29 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
30 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |