Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I composed a note for them and left it in the hall beside the phone . |
| 2 | She loaned them money , saved it for them or doled it out when necessary , all the transactions being written on the souvenir programme of whatever show she was appearing in . |
| 3 | ‘ That 'll have to be sold and the inside scrubbed and made ready for them as buys it . |
| 4 | Now if you want to see something that 's up on a shelf at the side , ask one of the helpers wearing a red jersey and they 'll take it down for you and show it to you . |
| 5 | erm , you do n't like looking through it , but can I just look through for you and learn it for you . |
| 6 | You just sit there mm yeah mm no mm well that 's the cheapest , that 's the dearest and and take their advice which ones the best for you and have it . |
| 7 | Cos when you get your takeaway they erm they carry it to the door for you and give it to you when you get to the door , and they hand |
| 8 | Until Apple began its marketing initiative there were only two options available ; pay someone else to do all of the job for you or do it all yourself . |
| 9 | I stood up for him and said it was rubbish , and told all the black players to quit training . |
| 10 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 12 | She wondered what the advertising people had in mind for her and hoped it would n't be anything too drastic . |
| 13 | Stay with the traffic , ’ he reiterated , opening the Falkplan for her and putting it above the glove compartment . |
| 14 | Yes … ! ’ and felt him strip , the feel of his hair-roughened skin against hers driving her wild because now he was so real , so completely real , and so completely hers as they moved together naked , and she took the physical desire he expressed for her and pretended it was love , because it was the deepest display of emotion he had ever shown her . |
| 15 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 16 | The motion that the Prime Minister has proposed for decision by the House tonight is intended to be so meaningless that any Tory Member can vote for it while interpreting it to suit himself or herself . |
| 17 | There was nothing for it but to pretend it had all been as Aunt Emily would have wished it to be . |
| 18 | She found she had torn most of the mourning band away from her sleeve and there was nothing for it but to pull it off entirely . |
| 19 | This concept is indeed abstract for those of us who have never had to fight for it or defend it . |
| 20 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 21 | She dived for it and levelled it at him . |
| 22 | Would you care for it and tend it every day |
| 23 | He reaches up for it and takes it in both hands . |
| 24 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
| 25 | Thursday 30 November — Thursday 21 December An exhibition of paintings , drawings , sketches and artist 's prints all for sale on a " pay for it and take it away " basis — with the result that the exhibition will be constantly changing . |
| 26 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 27 | Queen Victoria had a brass plaque put up in his memory in St George 's Chapel at Windsor , where I searched for it and found it while I was at Eton . |
| 28 | for it and found it when you want it er , it would have paid you to cut a bit off a new bar . |
| 29 | I paddled for it and caught it . |
| 30 | You could take their word for it and leave it at that . |