Example sentences of "he [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What did he want it for , Charlie-bloody-Hatton ? |
| 2 | What does he want it for ? |
| 3 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 4 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 5 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 6 | Entirely without authority he sold it for £75 to Harper , a garage proprietor who was unaware that Searle was not the owner . |
| 7 | Tony believes he sold it for around £400 in 1949 . |
| 8 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 9 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 10 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 11 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 14 | ‘ What does he need it for ? ’ |
| 15 | He writes it for me . |
| 16 | He has it for so long . |
| 17 | How much does he buy it for , he got , he buys it from the market . |
| 18 | There can be no doubt that he rewrote it for Ken . |
| 19 | I du n no , he needs it for something . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 22 | The new Black Basalt developed by Wedgwood was fine-grained , smooth , and richer in hue , and he used it for relief plaques , busts , medallions and cameos , as well as ‘ useful wares ’ for table and fine vases . |
| 23 | So he converted his barn which was huge and he used it for recitals , put a lovely grand piano in it . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | ‘ Besides , ’ said Garvin , ‘ all he wants it for is to go to Monte Carlo again . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , what on earth did he do it for ? ’ asked the Home Secretary , Sir Harry Marriott . |
| 27 | ‘ Could n't he do it for you ? ’ |
| 28 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
| 29 | He done it for his soldiers , to show them what they had to do . |
| 30 | He uses it for taping i at work . |