Example sentences of "[vb past] it for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 2 | I drew it for him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Oh I tried it for her |
| 7 | Eddie Gray tried it for us and look where it got him . |
| 8 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 9 | You found it for me ? |
| 10 | framed it for me . |
| 11 | So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me . |
| 12 | If anthologies ever needed any justification they received it for me at least during those years . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , you lovely feller , not 'alf I would n't , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I was too weak to eat the cheese roll , so Bessie ate it for me . ’ |
| 14 | He cut another slice and then he leaned across and buttered it for her , as if she had been a child . |
| 15 | Howard 's huge drive and Mark 's incredibly difficult 3-iron from the edge of the bunker sealed it for us . |
| 16 | ‘ You played it for her , you can play it for me ’ : MacWeek expects Apple Computer Inc this month to announce a software only information server code-named Bogart that simplifies and accelerates text search and retrieval ; the thing will use agent technology to enable users to perform English-language queries with Boolean operators and proximity searches of text stored on a central server or on CD-ROMs and will deliver ‘ smart relevance ’ search results , ranked by pertinence to the user 's query ; searches can reportedly occur on demand or at user-specified time intervals . |
| 17 | Once , she would not only have poured his coffee for him , she would have spooned in the sugar and stirred it for him , too . |
| 18 | I suspected it last night , and you confirmed it for me when I touched you in the lift on the way up to the restaurant tonight . |
| 19 | Cos Rita assembled it for us . |
| 20 | She rolled effortfully across to the draining-board and fetched it for him . |
| 21 | He poured it for her and watched with one eyebrow raised as she gulped at it . |
| 22 | Christ faced it for us and was victorious . |
| 23 | As for old-age pensioners , one such Member of the House was slow to pay her community charge bill to the London borough of Barnet , but then a friend paid it for her . |
| 24 | Mr Wishart stood up and opened it for her , handing her the wicker basket which seemed surprisingly light ; the old lady stepped off the train onto a now deserted platform . |
| 25 | He led her to the door and opened it for her . |
| 26 | The poor shopkeeper was so bemused he actually opened it for her and the pushchair came out first . |
| 27 | Haydn was ill and could not complete his commission in time , so Mozart finished it for him . |
| 28 | A gesture finished it for him : the empty house , the deserted kitchen . |
| 29 | She finished it for him . |
| 30 | I finished it for her . |