Example sentences of "he [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did 'e buy it for if 'e did n't want it ? |
| 2 | She let him pour it for her while she threw another log on to the fire , smashing a cathedral of embers . |
| 3 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 4 | what time shall I er get him to do it for ? |
| 5 | Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ? |
| 6 | There was n't too much to tell , and after Rutherford had finished he would leave the American in the room with the file and let him gut it for himself . |
| 7 | Experience in Northern Ireland enabled him to recognise it for what it was . |
| 8 | He tried the same with Flora but she only told him to save it for his interview with Dr Mackintosh that morning . |
| 9 | ‘ I asked him to get it for me . ’ |
| 10 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 11 | ‘ What did he want it for , Charlie-bloody-Hatton ? |
| 12 | What does he want it for ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 15 | If a lettuce cost the retailer 10p and he sold it for 15p , what was the mark up in cash terms ? |
| 16 | Entirely without authority he sold it for £75 to Harper , a garage proprietor who was unaware that Searle was not the owner . |
| 17 | Tony believes he sold it for around £400 in 1949 . |
| 18 | He fought it for a second , then gave in . |
| 19 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 20 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 21 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 22 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 23 | He built it for a very simple reason . |
| 24 | ‘ What does he need it for ? ’ |
| 25 | He writes it for me . |
| 26 | He has it for so long . |
| 27 | How much does he buy it for , he got , he buys it from the market . |
| 28 | There can be no doubt that he rewrote it for Ken . |
| 29 | I du n no , he needs it for something . |
| 30 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |