Example sentences of "he [verb] for it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’ |
| 2 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 3 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 4 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 5 | You know he paid for it to be |
| 6 | And he paid for it with his life ( 31:8 ) . |
| 7 | She passed on to our agent the name Raphael , though he paid for it with his life . |
| 8 | Shortly after this he paid for it by cheque and on request signed a statement that property in the van was not to pass to him until the cheque was cleared . |
| 9 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
| 10 | The priest finally concludes that the sheepskin is properly his , as he paid for it in goods not services . |
| 11 | He arranged for it to be bound in silver and , to hide his embarrassment , had it inscribed Risum teneatis , amica — ‘ Restrain your laughter , friends ’ . |
| 12 | He arranged for it to be published within a year by the Cambridge University press , overcoming the scruples of the Vice-Chancellor , who objected to the passage |
| 13 | Was he running for it at last ? |
| 14 | He feels for it on the roof . |
| 15 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 16 | As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top . |