Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I did it for an introduction before the films came out in Europe , ’ he says . |
| 3 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 4 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 5 | He watched it for an hour , and it flickered once |
| 6 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |