Example sentences of "[verb] it for [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I do n't think Manchester had too many chances in extra time and a Falconer goal would have won it for us . |
2 | The Institute should be sponsoring its own research in this area and encouraging UK companies to try it for themselves . |
3 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
4 | He strolled to the door , opening it for her , and she glanced at him crossly . |
5 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |
6 | Yes , you do n't need it for what we 're going to do now |
7 | I did n't need it for myself and none of my students could read it anyway . |
8 | I 'll need it for my missionary work in India , and you could help me to learn it by studying with me . |
9 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |
10 | The first five are in Latin , but Miller , realising his limitations , wrote in August 1763 , ‘ I have taken the liberty of writing to you in English , being informed that you can either read it yourself , or have some persons who can translate it for you ’ . |
11 | Will you translate it for us ? ’ |
12 | It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why . |
13 | BOY , DID I catch it for my remarks about George Orwell 's 1984 . |
14 | ‘ Do you want to let me catch it for you ? in he continued patronisingly . |
15 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
16 | He 'd have got someone else to write it for him . |
17 | The ordinary Egyptian could not write and if he wished to send a letter he would have to get a scribe to write it for him . |
18 | Incidentally , how did you persuade Michael Heseltine to write it for you ? |
19 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
20 | I drew it for him . |
21 | I could wordprocess it for you |
22 | Take the stand , I 'll wordprocess it for you |
23 | But the man would could win it for them is Mick Quinn substitute against his old club . |
24 | ‘ And I believe he is the man who can win it for us at Elland Road . |
25 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |
26 | Well , Lloyd 's of London can buy it for me . |
27 | ‘ No , you did n't buy it for me . |
28 | I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week . |
29 | it 's funny cos I just I thought ooh , I 'll buy it for her cos you know she does n't |
30 | But the shopman had already bowed as though keeping it for her was all any human being could ask . |