Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them . |
| 2 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |
| 3 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 4 | However , the seven republican delegations which attended a further meeting on Nov. 25 refused to initial the Treaty , and sent it back for further discussion in the republican Supreme Soviets . |
| 5 | Kept it up for three weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ We kept it up for ten days before Passchendaele , ’ Finlayson said . |
| 7 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |
| 8 | So well we could go out there anyway to see whether they 've got any er you see if they carried it on for another month |
| 9 | A Sunday newspaper had once revealed that he 'd wanted to marry a feminist and she 'd run off with a lesbian , which was why he had it in for both . |
| 10 | Marx downed his glass in one gulp and absent-mindedly held it out for more . |