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 . |