Example sentences of "[vb past] it for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 2 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 3 | ‘ We had it fitted out in the States , changed it for the case provided by the Pentagon just before take-off last night . ’ |
| 4 | He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage . |
| 5 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 6 | But again Hal believed it for the truth . |
| 7 | they were having one here as well and erm they booked it for the day and they were staying there overnight , cos they were , they 've got a house and they were gon na let guests stay at their house and while they stayed up there and then |
| 8 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 9 | Alter this technique had been invented , it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines . |
| 10 | In 1924 his widow sold the dramatic rights of Dracula to Hamilton Deane , who adapted it for the stage ; in 1930 the rights were bought by the Universal Pictures Corporation of Hollywood for $40,000 . |
| 11 | During production , or soon afterwards , the Alexis Master adapted it for the use of St Christina of Markyate ( born c .1096 , q.v. ) by adding the Alexis and Emmaus drawings , intended to echo incidents in Christina 's own life . |
| 12 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 13 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 14 | Now she saw the love that had gone into it , saw it for the home it was , sensed it as only a woman can . |
| 15 | Although I would have been surprised if London 's Charles Dickens Society required its members to put on a white tie for its annual dinner , the invitation card demanded it for the Scott dinner . |
| 16 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 17 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 18 | It was n't easy to make a show with such diverse voices pull together and some of what I wrote did n't fit in ( I kept it for The Pie of Damocles later that year though ) . |
| 19 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 20 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 21 | He bought it for the Astra . |
| 22 | bought it for the dog and about fifty quid of it altogether |
| 23 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 24 | I did it for the girl , he protested . |
| 25 | The kind of friends she had were loyal by definition , and they liked her , in their eyes she was a woman who could do no wrong ( she was only separated , mind , not divorced ) , they were ready to do any thing for her and when she would not let them they did it for the girl . |
| 26 | his school sports and said I did it for the sake of the children ! |
| 27 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 28 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 29 | When a large amount of equipment was contaminated dealing with an explosion at Shell some time ago , Shell replaced it for the fire brigade . |
| 30 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |