Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 2 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 3 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 4 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 5 | I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . |
| 6 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 7 | To the same guy that I 'd bought it for twe er for twenty off . |
| 8 | I had no idea why I had brought the knife and what I 'd used it for . |
| 9 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 10 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 11 | I said course you can I said I 'd had it for years like that . |
| 12 | cheaper than what I 'd had it for but I mean they always do something like that |
| 13 | That 's , I know , I forgot to record it for you . |
| 14 | I forgot to I know I forgot to record it for you . |
| 15 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 16 | And he added : ‘ It is important to me that the boys know I offered to do it for nothing . ’ |
| 17 | Oscar took his jacket off and I offered to carry it for him . |
| 18 | I said Oh I said oh you did use my hand blender , I did leave it for you then she |
| 19 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 20 | I had to use it for one of Andy |
| 21 | I had felt it for my mother before my father left when she would intercept his post , putting certain violet-scented envelopes into the pocket of her dress and steaming them open in the kitchen after he had left for work . |
| 22 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 23 | And I took it and slew them all : seven thousand warriors and old men , together with women and old women and maidens , for I had consecrated it for Ashtar-Chemosh . ’ |
| 24 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 25 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 26 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 27 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I had taken it for granted that you would n't want a boring old fart like me trailing after you round Siena . ’ |
| 28 | It was a big step to do it and I wanted to do it for Freddie . |
| 29 | ‘ You know what I want to do — and I wanted to do it for Jimi 's birthday in his anniversary year , but it did n't happen — I want to get everybody that ever recorded with him , anybody who played live with him , get them all at a big reunion and go out and play Hendrix all night long — every song that I know , every song that we could possibly do . |