Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv prt] for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The grocer had a grinder somewhere , and his wife unearthed it , dusted it down and plugged it in for me .
2 They moved it out for something reason so I had occasion to look at it more closely .
3 She constructed back : You know what I am , and so do I. There , the blackened wrecks of meanings , that 's me , and you know it because you built it back for me .
4 they booked it in for you and somebody said this is reserved and they forgot to take it off your
5 I turned it off for you .
6 He went and fetched it up for me .
7 ‘ I figured it out for meself , Mam . ’
8 You did , stuck it up for her ?
9 He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him .
10 I worked it out for myself . ’
11 He spelled it out for me .
12 She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards .
13 When she read it out to him he tapped it in for her .
14 He tapped it in for her .
15 Tetsu tapped it in for his birdie and now , having three-putted the 3rd green , he was level par .
16 I brought it over for you , ’ Lawler said , groping in a pocket .
17 It brought it back for me . ’
18 Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow .
19 Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake .
20 I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better
21 McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’
22 They got the jackets off , they did the job , they laid it out for us .
23 Why had this Pakistani — if he was a Pakistani — got it in for him ?
24 Other teachers got it in for me because my brother went there before me …
25 IRENE Aldis , who lost her wedding ring in 1932 , got it back for her 102nd birthday after it was found in a field at Honingham , Norfolk .
26 Tommy bought it over for my mother .
27 And again I wrote it out for him you know , wrote it all out .
28 ‘ How had it in for ye ? ’
29 They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him .
30 But William 's grandad reckoned the real reason they had it in for him was because of the name .
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