Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 3 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 4 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 5 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 6 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 7 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 8 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 9 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
| 10 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
| 11 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 12 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
| 13 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 16 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 17 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 18 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |