Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gill spotted the manuscript at a local auction and purchased it for £1,500 , realising its quality but not its rarity or importance ; Sotheby 's Christopher de Hamel found it ‘ extraordinarily interesting ’ . |
| 2 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 3 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 4 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 5 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |
| 6 | The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike . |
| 7 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 8 | Even in the best hotels they tended to view whisky as a kind of pastis and served it for drinking in the French way . |
| 9 | Already I 've heard aghast whispers about the details of the Milwaukee cannibal : ‘ Do you know , ’ they hiss in your ear , ‘ he cut out one chap 's bicep , fried it on a griddle and ate it for his breakfast ? ’ |
| 10 | He slammed the full magazine into the weapon and gripped it for a moment , the veins in his temple throbbing angrily . |
| 11 | She caught Stephen 's eye and held it for a second . |
| 12 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 13 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 14 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |
| 15 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
| 16 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
| 17 | I screwed the note into a ball and threw it for Springsteen to play with . |
| 18 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 19 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 20 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 21 | With his hand control he killed the television News and swapped it for ‘ Home and Away ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 23 | Once , she would not only have poured his coffee for him , she would have spooned in the sugar and stirred it for him , too . |
| 24 | Kelly returned his kiss and held it for a fraction longer than she should have . |
| 25 | Eliza Bunce was the widow of the Revd John Bunce ( died 1786 ) , vicar of St Stephen 's , who encouraged Dixon 's writing and corrected it for publication . |
| 26 | He led her to the door and opened it for her . |
| 27 | He took a dressing-gown from the back of the door and held it for her . |
| 28 | Mike Duffy , a sound engineer with Britain 's most successful production team of Stock , Aitken and Waterman , heard Kylie 's rendition of the song and re-recorded it for Mushroom . |
| 29 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 30 | She opened a gate and held it for Meredith . |