Example sentences of "it [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just do it for yourself for once . ’ |
| 2 | He would be willing , of course , to keep it for her for ever . |
| 3 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 4 | Well I get twenty five quid 's worth of vouchers from Marks and Spencers I shall buy Stuart a shirt , I 'll give it for something for Christmas , wo n't it ? |
| 5 | If your purchase is to be a gift , the assistant will normally offer to giftwrap it for you for no extra charge . |
| 6 | next thing I remember was being undressed and in bed with Debbie standing there with a boiled egg on a tray , saying mummy were so sorry you 'll never do Christmas again , you 've done it for us for forty years , we shall do it for you now . |
| 7 | Well what 's she talking it about it for then ? |
| 8 | so you 're made to feel the most special person on the earth and I think that makes it worth it for a lot of them . |
| 9 | She had hopes of an East India merchant taking it off her for £13,000 , and the shock of it falling through brought her to her senses , and to a realization of the depth of the hole she had dug for herself . |
| 10 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 11 | I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance . |
| 12 | We 're in a position where we 're going to borrow a bit from next year , that actually puts the pressure on as I see it 's about nine or ten thousand extra this year , the allowance is about a hundred and eighty thousand , the total , erm , we 're adding nine or ten thousand to that , we 're taking it off it for next year , so we 've already got ourselves something like an eighteen to twenty thousand reduction in members allowances next year so the pressure is on to resolve the problem , and er , perhaps Mr might feel that actually that extra pressure might make us resolve it . |
| 13 | You do n't 'old it against me for pinchin' the wallet , do you ? ’ |
| 14 | He listened , and his heart ached because he knew if he failed her she would hold it against him for ever . |
| 15 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 16 | ‘ I go down and say ‘ every single offcut of lycra you have — and make it into one for me ! ’ . ’ |
| 17 | The rogue took the ring to Brooks , a firm of pawnbrokers , and pledged it with them for £350 . |
| 18 | ‘ Offensive weapon means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him , or by some other person , per section 1(4) Prevention Of Crime Act 1953 as amended by the Public Order Act 1986 Schedule 2 paragraph 2 . |
| 19 | A weapon of offence is defined in s.10(1) ( b ) as " any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to or incapacitating a person or intended by the person having it with him for such use " . |
| 20 | But the band stuck by me , worked out a routine with me , and busked through it with me for the rest of the run . |
| 21 | Because the Kurecolor KC-400 Brush Pen range is easily portable — all 60 pens fit into a compact work station with a rest that doubles as a carrying handle — I took it with me for some outdoor sketching . |
| 22 | ‘ If you leave it with me for an hour , I 'll pencil in the vowels and divide up the words at the end of the sentences . ’ |
| 23 | Yes and she she had er a tartan skirt and she swapped it with me for a an Indian blue dress . |
| 24 | I got it from him for $125 , and it 's been my mainstay flatpicking electric guitar ever since . |
| 25 | This house belonged to a shipyard owner , but the Navy took it from him for the duration and now it 's a hostel for Wrens . |
| 26 | And that 's it from us for today . |
| 27 | That 's just about it from us for today — but do allow lunchtime Scotland Today to brighten up Friday for you . |
| 28 | That 's it from us for another week . |
| 29 | That 's just about it from us for tonight … apart from to say that the film star Warren Beatty is in the region and we 'll be talking to him in tomorrow night 's programme … |
| 30 | And that 's it from us for the moment , Ann Lucas will be here at ten-thirty with the late news but from us for the moment , goodnight . |