Example sentences of "he [vb past] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 2 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 3 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 4 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 5 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 6 | He studied it for a while , whistled and rang Fulham . |
| 7 | Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again . |
| 8 | He shook it for a while until it gurgled and moved its head weakly . |
| 9 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |
| 10 | He watched it for a moment , but it stayed off . |
| 11 | He watched it for an hour , and it flickered once |
| 12 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 13 | She said well he took it for the glass . |
| 14 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 15 | He knew it for a certainty . |
| 16 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 17 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 18 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 19 | When the Lord made Sunday he meant it for a day of rest , a day of peace and quiet after the turmoil of the working week . |
| 20 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 21 | He kept it for a talisman , taking it with him in his pocket when he married Maria Filippa , and on the boat when they crossed the ocean to New York . |
| 22 | He bought it for the Astra . |
| 23 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 24 | He did it for a laugh . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 26 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 27 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 28 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 29 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
| 30 | Naturally he cribbed it for the title of a pamphlet , when what I actually meant by it was some advice . |