Example sentences of "he [vb past] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 2 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 3 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 4 | Entirely without authority he sold it for £75 to Harper , a garage proprietor who was unaware that Searle was not the owner . |
| 5 | Tony believes he sold it for around £400 in 1949 . |
| 6 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 7 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 8 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 9 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 10 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 11 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 12 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 13 | The new Black Basalt developed by Wedgwood was fine-grained , smooth , and richer in hue , and he used it for relief plaques , busts , medallions and cameos , as well as ‘ useful wares ’ for table and fine vases . |
| 14 | So he converted his barn which was huge and he used it for recitals , put a lovely grand piano in it . |
| 15 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 16 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 17 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 18 | He studied it for a while , whistled and rang Fulham . |
| 19 | Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again . |
| 20 | He poured it for her and watched with one eyebrow raised as she gulped at it . |
| 21 | He shook it for a while until it gurgled and moved its head weakly . |
| 22 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 23 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 24 | He released it for her from between the seats . |
| 25 | He , he home last in the fifty fly but he finished it for once . |
| 26 | he enjoyed it for forty years . |
| 27 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 28 | And he hailed it for providing an ideal environment in which individualism can flourish . |
| 29 | He examined it for blotches and blemishes , and subjected any irregularities to the most rigorous scrutiny . |
| 30 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |