Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] it for " in BNC.

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1 I needs it for a wager on the Brasseywing . ’
2 ‘ Mrs Morey says I 've got beautiful hair and she brushes it for me . ’
3 She wants it for him . ’
4 That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement .
5 ‘ It does n't matter , if she does it for Nails . ’
6 But she wo n't let him try , he does n't have to use his mind , she does it for him .
7 Claire says it 's always a challenge … you sometimes get cold … but she does it for enjoyment there 's no other reason
8 You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people
9 ‘ She 'd well be able to but your mother has to be here , this is our home , she runs it for you and me , Benny . ’
10 I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas .
11 He writes it for me .
12 He has it for so long .
13 I du n no , he needs it for something .
14 ‘ Besides , ’ said Garvin , ‘ all he wants it for is to go to Monte Carlo again .
15 It optimises it for distributed massively parallel processing .
16 a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there .
17 He uses it for taping i at work .
18 When a central bank buys a surplus of foreign currency it exchanges it for domestic currency , here Deutschmarks .
19 The co-existence of opposite feelings experienced by a spectator during a performance of tragedy is shared by the tragic artist himself Despite the pleasure he finds in appearances , he negates it for the higher satisfaction of their destruction .
20 He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap .
21 He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle , the male the active .
22 After the case , Mr Fox said : ‘ I 'm glad he 's gone to prison , he deserves it for what he did .
23 I expect he is going to die in prison and he deserves it for what he has done . ’
24 We want satisfaction , we want completeness in life , and so we try this and it gives it for a moment , but when it 's finished we 've got ta try something else .
25 Today , in Court 13 , he saves it for the end of his opening .
26 A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land , or who picks flowers , fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild on any land , does not ( although not in possession of the land ) , steal what he picks , unless he does it for reward or for sale or other commercial purpose .
27 He does it for vanity , to get a reputation , to obtain stipends and official positions .
28 You play with him Rachel he does it for you .
29 Yes , I mean it does it for you does n't it ?
30 I shall repeat it as he works it for adults and then suggest how it might be adapted for children .
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