Example sentences of "it for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maths teacher had been , Maggie knew , contemptuous and rude and sexist , but Maggie felt that Phoebe should have put up with it for her sake . |
| 2 | I want it for her own good . |
| 3 | She wore it for her lover who was far , far away |
| 4 | Oh , she wore it for her lover who was far , far away . |
| 5 | ‘ Got it for her week before . |
| 6 | Grandma would use it for her buttonholes when she went to church , along with a flower or two . |
| 7 | It tasted heavy and there was too much whiskey in it for her taste . |
| 8 | She did it for her father and liked to do so in the one part of the house that was totally his . |
| 9 | Lawyer D told her that a jointly-owned house would become the sole property of her husband after her death , and she could not in any way guarantee her share of the money invested in it for her children . |
| 10 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 11 | I 'd like Mrs Perks to have it for her little boy . |
| 12 | She had fought hard to make a new life for herself — and there was absolutely no room in it for her husband . |
| 13 | When she was a teenager she used to go round wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for her head . |
| 14 | A nine year old child bought petrol from the defendants after falsely stating that his mother needed it for her car . |
| 15 | No , I trimmed it for her last week |
| 16 | her Mum bought it for her er pure wool |
| 17 | Strip away the insincerity and the hype from the music business and see it for what it is , a jungle . |
| 18 | If you are paying a little more for the food you should enjoy it for what it is — avoid recipes which suggest such things as stuffing breasts of chicken with Parma ham mousse , then wrapping them in smoked salmon and poaching in wine before serving with a cream sauce . |
| 19 | Horst Urban , Continental 's boss , is unimpressed with Pirelli 's elaborate scheme and rightly sees it for what it is : a takeover . |
| 20 | If we can recognize it for what it is , then we are well on the road to dealing with it , and being able to put it behind us . |
| 21 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 22 | A piece of rope was tied to it but the knot was difficult to undo and , after fiddling with it for what felt like hours , he still could n't pry it loose . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not a birth-mark and , if I had rid myself of my preconceptions , I would have recognized it for what it is , on superficial examination of the subject . ’ |
| 24 | But behind some of the peeling doors painted in council colours , there burned ambition that would have surprised the rest of the street had it recognised it for what it was . ’ |
| 25 | It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why . |
| 26 | ‘ When I play , some days it 's off , some days it 's on , and I take it for what it is . |
| 27 | ‘ I think most of you are in it for what you can get . |
| 28 | But instead of meeting each problem separately and assessing it for what it is , the anorexic thinks she has a master-plan , designed to solve them all at one stroke . |
| 29 | After the case , Mr Fox said : ‘ I 'm glad he 's gone to prison , he deserves it for what he did . |
| 30 | We want to change the whole concept of how dance music is appreciated , so that people can see it for what it is . |