Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.

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1 In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while .
2 He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years .
3 when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or
4 Has anybody read it for the first time for this course ?
5 ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said .
6 I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’
7 The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems .
8 Let 'em rough it for a week .
9 When I was fifteen we rented a rough shoot of about a thousand acres on Stowe Hill , part of the Stanage estate ; Guy Rogers let us have it for a fiver .
10 I would like you to wear it for a while . ’
11 Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two
12 I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time .
13 I know you do it for the good of us but I still like to buy you something as a thank you .
14 No matter how worthwhile a project seems we attack it for the hidden and sinister purposes behind it .
15 Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year .
16 You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people
17 She lifted her lip at me — I think she meant it for a smile . ’
18 I could let you have it for a few months until you get sorted out . ’
19 Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and
20 I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action .
21 his school sports and said I did it for the sake of the children !
22 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 .
23 Please help us preserve it for the future generations .
24 So , have you done it for the deadline ?
25 How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ?
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