Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 2 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 3 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 4 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 5 | And it eventually gestated out , and he wrote it for his Sunday school , and his church organist , Lewis Redner was asked to provide the music , and this is the music which Redner provided |
| 6 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 7 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 8 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 9 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 10 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |
| 11 | And he hailed it for providing an ideal environment in which individualism can flourish . |
| 12 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 13 | She took it , and he lit it for her . |
| 14 | The new Black Basalt developed by Wedgwood was fine-grained , smooth , and richer in hue , and he used it for relief plaques , busts , medallions and cameos , as well as ‘ useful wares ’ for table and fine vases . |
| 15 | So he converted his barn which was huge and he used it for recitals , put a lovely grand piano in it . |
| 16 | He , he home last in the fifty fly but he finished it for once . |
| 17 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 18 | Born in Warsaw in 1905 , his full name was Marius Ladislas Steniatowski , but he shortened it for convenience when his parents came to England in 1921 . |
| 19 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 20 | Because he had it for breakfast . |
| 21 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 22 | When he did it for himself , the law jailed him |
| 23 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 24 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 25 | Ronni felt her blood leap and burn within her as he held it for a moment , squeezing gently , then , almost as though the gesture was an afterthought , allowing his thumb to graze lightly against the burning peak . |
| 26 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |