Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 2 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 3 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 5 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 6 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 8 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 11 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 12 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 13 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 16 | And I said is my caravan being cleaned weekly as people go out if they 've got it for a fortnight fortnightly . |
| 17 | Pic oh I 've got it for a week and if I get successful in doing so many tapes then I get twenty pound , twenty five pound v voucher to spend |
| 18 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 19 | I 've had it for a week . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mm Dave Allen 's on that as well the only bit , I think I 've set it for the Beast Master ai n't I ? |
| 22 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 23 | I 've swapped it for a couple of weeks . |
| 24 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 25 | I 've rented it for a fortnight . |
| 26 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 27 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |
| 28 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 29 | and erm she 's had it for a couple of days but we thought she was getting over it this morning . |
| 30 | He 's had it for a week . |