Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 2 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 3 | Let's have a look at how you manage your time at the moment and how you 'd like to reorganize it for the future . |
| 4 | Got to use it for the paint . |
| 5 | Because if we 're going to use it for the ragtime and er |
| 6 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 7 | Cos I 've got to finish it for the morning . |
| 8 | And at the end of the evening he said , ‘ Give me your number , I 'd like to have it for the future . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required . |
| 10 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 11 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 12 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 13 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 14 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 16 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 17 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 19 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 20 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |
| 21 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 22 | Material , otherwise privileged , would be excluded from protection only in what , it is to be hoped , is the very rare case of the crooked solicitor who holds the material intending to use it for the furtherance of a personal criminal purpose . |
| 23 | We 'll leave bathing it for the moment ; I must take care of Effie and the afterbirth . ’ |
| 24 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 25 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 26 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 27 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 28 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
| 29 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 30 | You do not need to dip into this money at regular intervals , but wish to retain it for the future . |