Example sentences of "[verb] it for [pers pn] " 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 | He strolled to the door , opening it for her , and she glanced at him crossly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Will you translate it for us ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do you want to let me catch it for you ? in he continued patronisingly . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | He 'd have got someone else to write it for him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Incidentally , how did you persuade Michael Heseltine to write it for you ? |
| 11 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 12 | I drew it for him . |
| 13 | I could wordprocess it for you |
| 14 | Take the stand , I 'll wordprocess it for you |
| 15 | But the man would could win it for them is Mick Quinn substitute against his old club . |
| 16 | ‘ And I believe he is the man who can win it for us at Elland Road . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well , Lloyd 's of London can buy it for me . |
| 19 | ‘ No , you did n't buy it for me . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | it 's funny cos I just I thought ooh , I 'll buy it for her cos you know she does n't |
| 22 | But the shopman had already bowed as though keeping it for her was all any human being could ask . |
| 23 | I 'm keeping it for him , like . |
| 24 | ‘ I hope someone 's at home videoing it for him . ’ |
| 25 | The outing was set up by her former Tory MP , the late Richard Holt , who also fixed it for her to take her first flight — an 80-minute trip over the Bay of Biscay in Concorde — when she was 109 . |
| 26 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 27 | Let's chop it for you . |
| 28 | It 's not that that your Margaret ai n't got time to stop there and dry it for her , you know what I mean . |
| 29 | Say it for us . |
| 30 | It cost around £2,000 to make in 1982 and the man who built it for me said then that it would ‘ lift one ton , let alone Willie Whitelaw ’ . |