Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manville toyed with it for a few moments , imagining the corridors of the Pentagon and White House alive with zooming figures , grey-flannel covered asses farting tongues of flame . |
| 2 | Schellenberg brooded about it for a moment . |
| 3 | Jean pondered on it for a day while we held our breath . |
| 4 | Watch it for its parched melancholia : watch it for the fantastic innards-eaten Erich von Stroheim ; watch it and spot which tiny , yet central , image Spielberg nicked from it for ET . |
| 5 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 6 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 7 | Although most wireless owners had opened their doors so that people could listen to the King 's message , Mr Peters talked about it for those who had missed it . |
| 8 | but this diet is the one that Shelly , she lost quite a lot and Jill went on it for quite a while |
| 9 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 10 | Lydia thought about it for a while , before she spoke . |
| 11 | Both men listened to it for a moment , then Duclos stood up restlessly and walked over to his gramophone . |
| 12 | If there was a serious disagreement the report would still contain the point but it would say that the school disagreed with it for whatever reason . |
| 13 | As she closed the door after her , Mr Kronweiser looked at it for a minute or two in puzzlement . |
| 14 | Preston stared at it for a moment , frowning . |
| 15 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 16 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 17 | " He may have made it , but Fiver thought of it for us , " answered Hazel . |