Example sentences of "[verb] it for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 3 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
| 4 | ‘ Did n't you leave it for me to read ? ’ |
| 5 | Then I 'll try and fix it for you to have your roof-top ending . ’ |
| 6 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 7 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 8 | Dangle it for her to play with . |
| 9 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 10 | They had left it for me to finish alone on a chill blue , lonely morning five centuries later . |
| 11 | Omar Pound must know the full story , but rightly I think , though surely austerely , he has left it for us to piece together . |
| 12 | Naturally , Mozart wrote it for himself to play . |
| 13 | And , since Rachmaninov wrote it for himself to play , it demands a tremendous technique from the soloist . |
| 14 | He fetches half a tree in his dripping mouth and insists on me throwing it for him to fetch . |
| 15 | He tilted it for me to see . |