Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 On February 1 , 1941 Yamamoto showed his plan to Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi , Chief of Staff of the 11th Air Fleet , he turned it over for study to his most able commander , Minoru Genda .
2 And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions .
3 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 .
4 He saw it only for a second .
5 When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 .
6 He kept it there for weeks , later transferring the number to his Filofax .
7 He spelled it out for me .
8 When she read it out to him he tapped it in for her .
9 He tapped it in for her .
10 He had lost face , he had lost honour , yet now he flirted with the thought of murder , which was beyond all honour , and he did it solely for a woman .
11 A Sunday newspaper had once revealed that he 'd wanted to marry a feminist and she 'd run off with a lesbian , which was why he had it in for both .
12 That was why he had it in for you for putting him away .
13 He had it in for Giggs , I knew he had .
14 JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team .
15 He summed it up for Tallis :
16 He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands .
17 He jacked it in for something different did
18 Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances .
19 When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect .
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