Example sentences of "[vb past] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 2 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 3 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 4 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 5 | ‘ We had it fitted out in the States , changed it for the case provided by the Pentagon just before take-off last night . ’ |
| 6 | He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage . |
| 7 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | But again Hal believed it for the truth . |
| 9 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 10 | they were having one here as well and erm they booked it for the day and they were staying there overnight , cos they were , they 've got a house and they were gon na let guests stay at their house and while they stayed up there and then |
| 11 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 12 | During production , or soon afterwards , the Alexis Master adapted it for the use of St Christina of Markyate ( born c .1096 , q.v. ) by adding the Alexis and Emmaus drawings , intended to echo incidents in Christina 's own life . |
| 13 | In 1924 his widow sold the dramatic rights of Dracula to Hamilton Deane , who adapted it for the stage ; in 1930 the rights were bought by the Universal Pictures Corporation of Hollywood for $40,000 . |
| 14 | Alter this technique had been invented , it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines . |
| 15 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 16 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 17 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 18 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 19 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 20 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
| 21 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 22 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 23 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 24 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 25 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 26 | One though , Urathion of Ullar , saw it for the world-destroying madness that it was . |
| 27 | Now she saw the love that had gone into it , saw it for the home it was , sensed it as only a woman can . |
| 28 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 29 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 30 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |