Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv prt] for [pers pn] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 they booked it in for you and somebody said this is reserved and they forgot to take it off your
4 I turned it off for you .
5 He went and fetched it up for me .
6 You did , stuck it up for her ?
7 He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him .
8 He spelled it out for me .
9 She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards .
10 When she read it out to him he tapped it in for her .
11 He tapped it in for her .
12 I brought it over for you , ’ Lawler said , groping in a pocket .
13 It brought it back for me . ’
14 Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow .
15 McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’
16 They got the jackets off , they did the job , they laid it out for us .
17 Why had this Pakistani — if he was a Pakistani — got it in for him ?
18 Other teachers got it in for me because my brother went there before me …
19 And again I wrote it out for him you know , wrote it all out .
20 ‘ How had it in for ye ? ’
21 They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him .
22 But William 's grandad reckoned the real reason they had it in for him was because of the name .
23 He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him .
24 well that was somebody had it in for them
25 After that Randy really had it in for her .
26 ‘ Raja had it in for me and just waited its time .
27 I thought fate really had it in for me .
28 That was why he had it in for you for putting him away .
29 ROS : They had it in for us , did n't they ?
30 JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team .
  Next page