Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 32 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 33 | We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things . |
| 34 | You know he always wore it for gardening . |
| 35 | and I 've only just started , still got two people outstanding so I 've got that forty pound and I put that into the building society and use that forty pounds for months see so it kind of like saved it for me , I 've managed , had to do without it |
| 36 | They usually did it for more obvious , sordid reasons ; they wanted money , they had fallen in love with someone else or lost their temper . |
| 37 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 38 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 39 | They promptly shot it for dinner , a welcome break from dehydrated rations . |
| 40 | The outing was set up by her former Tory MP , the late Richard Holt , who also fixed it for her to take her first flight — an 80-minute trip over the Bay of Biscay in Concorde — when she was 109 . |
| 41 | Having consulted all available evidence and carefully examined it for reliability , the historian has to decide , judge , evaluate and interpret in a final summary or synthesis . |
| 42 | That bloke probably took it for a ride he said . |
| 43 | Susie Beamish probably drank it for breakfast . |
| 44 | Sir David English probably disliked it for two reasons . |
| 45 | No I really got it for the er card holder . |
| 46 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 47 | Even the employer operating from his own premises often took it for granted that if his advantage dictated it , the parish must take the strain . |
| 48 | Geared to local economic needs , dominated by businessmen rather than bureaucrats and financed by a mixture of public and private money , TECs originally promised a genuine break with the Whitehall-dominated past : a chance , at last , to give high-quality training the priority so often denied it for decades . |
| 49 | I took my poor mouth to Martha McGilchrist , who exasperatedly drained it for me . |
| 50 | He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage . |
| 51 | We simply took it for granted that women can function well in psychology in all kinds of settings , and we showed that they could by doing our work . |
| 52 | John Bowes immediately bought it for £200 — quite a bargain as it was on sale for £2,000 at the Paris Exhibition . |
| 53 | Accordingly , he ‘ did up ’ the car ( then worth £20 ) at a cost of £85 and then sold it for £100 . |
| 54 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 55 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 56 | Melcarek and Brown then used it for a study of the effects of chill stress on both prompt and delayed fluorescence . |
| 57 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 58 | He actually came into Frankfurt in his hired BMW , then changed it for a Mercedes . |
| 59 | He then holed it for a three . |
| 60 | Luckily we had a strong team and managed to gain a lot of points which ultimately clinched it for us . ’ |