Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] it for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muslim parents favoured it for their daughters because men were barred the premises . |
| 2 | ‘ Just a long stone room but legend has it that the Templars used it for their mysteries . |
| 3 | Hoomey wondered who he would go along with when the day came his parents arranged his getting married , for Sikhs arranged it for their sons , Hoomey knew . |
| 4 | Reid was convinced that the British Empire had given New Zealand the Cook Islands mandate because the Americans wanted it for their sphere of influence . |
| 5 | What was once the abbey 's guest-house had been increasing in size and grandeur as successive monarchs used it for their Edinburgh residence . |