Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [coord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 2 | Those disciples , they had the storm stilled for them and it got easier sailing . |
| 3 | He put in a good word for me and it went on from there . |
| 4 | ‘ I had my top made for me and it cost £70 . |
| 5 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 6 | I seemed to have no value for him and it began to feel like a kind of death . |
| 7 | It was not appropriate for the son to care for her but it became too much for the daughter-in-law , who was admitted to psychiatric hospital with a nervous breakdown , and the problems were referred to the local area social service office . |
| 8 | That was the Catholic name for it and it had always seemed very appropriate to Preston , conjuring up visions of an unctuous priest dripping oil and glib assurance . |
| 9 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 10 | ‘ Last year he organised a fund-raising match for us and it raised £51,000 net . |
| 11 | Using word processors was already standard practice for us and it became rapidly apparent that desktop publishing was the way to go , so far as production systems were concerned . |
| 12 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |