Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 2 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 3 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 4 | She tried exchanging it for Fleury 's but that was just as hard . |
| 5 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 6 | She walked past Jotan to the door , and the pages who were stationed there hastened to open it for her . |
| 7 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 8 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She 'd done it for him . |
| 11 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 12 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 13 | And she was going upstairs to turn the bed down she 'd done it for |
| 14 | I had no idea why I had brought the knife and what I 'd used it for . |
| 15 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 16 | To the same guy that I 'd bought it for twe er for twenty off . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She 'd had it for years until you started helping . ’ |
| 19 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 20 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 23 | I said course you can I said I 'd had it for years like that . |
| 24 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 25 | cheaper than what I 'd had it for but I mean they always do something like that |
| 26 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 27 | I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . |
| 28 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 29 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 30 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |