Example sentences of "[vb past] it for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a pity the wind ruined it for everyone . ’ |
| 2 | Chauveau added : ‘ I know Peterborough are very upset about it but it does n't change the fact that one moron behind the goal ruined it for everybody . ’ |
| 3 | He said well you 've got no bloody springs on the pawls , I says so I picked a tin of springs up , we kept it for anybody who wanted a spring for their bike , any spring where , you know the hooks on each end ? |
| 4 | ’ ’ I took it for something inevitable . |
| 5 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 6 | Luigi did not charge very much for this operation , and if the patient was poor he did it for nothing . |
| 7 | They were the people who did it for nothing . ’ |
| 8 | I mean however much you like doing something you would n't do it if you did it for nothing . |