Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers to buy it for £1,000 . |
| 2 | and he wants to get it for his disability project to see if he can get |
| 3 | He seemed to take it for granted that she was the one to talk to . |
| 4 | He seemed to take it for granted that everyone would do what he told them . |
| 5 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 6 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 7 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 9 | He had to see it for himself . |