Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grocer had a grinder somewhere , and his wife unearthed it , dusted it down and plugged it in for me . |
| 2 | She constructed back : You know what I am , and so do I. There , the blackened wrecks of meanings , that 's me , and you know it because you built it back for me . |
| 3 | I taped it mainly for you . |
| 4 | they booked it in for you and somebody said this is reserved and they forgot to take it off your |
| 5 | The third kick splintered it enough for her to break it off . |
| 6 | I turned it off for you . |
| 7 | He went and fetched it up for me . |
| 8 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 9 | You did , stuck it up for her ? |
| 10 | He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him . |
| 11 | It came so fast the keeper hardly saw it so for him and for all Hereford fans here it is in slow motion |
| 12 | He spelled it out for me . |
| 13 | She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards . |
| 14 | When she read it out to him he tapped it in for her . |
| 15 | He tapped it in for her . |
| 16 | I brought it over for you , ’ Lawler said , groping in a pocket . |
| 17 | It brought it back for me . ’ |
| 18 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 19 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 20 | She made it specially for him , and I 'm damned if I 'll send it back . ’ |
| 21 | Underneath all that razzmatazz , the girls sneaked aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach or into his room in Guaruja , there was a man of some sensitivity who felt that both fame and sexual prowess had somehow been thrust upon him ; I think he found both hard to resist , and it must be acknowledged that a chauvinistic British press , his looks , his celebrity and his companions made it hard for him to do anything else than accept the role thrust upon him . |
| 22 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 23 | While lords were concerned about returns from their estates , their normal practice was to exploit traditional resources rather than to seek more profitable areas for investment , even at a time when population decline made it hard for them to find tenants and had reduced rent levels and the income from them . |
| 24 | He said the children 's history of abuse and separation made it hard for them to trust anyone . |
| 25 | There was something in his face that had no right to be there , and the fact that it was so unexpected made it hard for her to recognise ; but recognise it she did , and its presence bewildered her . |
| 26 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 27 | She made it hard for me . |
| 28 | They got the jackets off , they did the job , they laid it out for us . |
| 29 | Why had this Pakistani — if he was a Pakistani — got it in for him ? |
| 30 | Other teachers got it in for me because my brother went there before me … |