Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] it for " in BNC.
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1 | Naturally he cribbed it for the title of a pamphlet , when what I actually meant by it was some advice . |
2 | So he bought it for Christmas for you no |
3 | When he took Nicandra 's plate away he held it for Maman to see , hoping perhaps that a little annoyance might irritate her back to liveliness . |
4 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
5 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
6 | Three decades late he spoke it for his parents and his siblings , thinking that the kindly keeper who bent over him was perhaps , after all , SS Sergeant Gustav Wagner , or SS Sergeant Karl Frenzel or … |
7 | 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 . |