Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 2 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 3 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 4 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want any of you others to do anything , even if you do mean it for the best . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 11 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 12 | Cos it 's not as if we have to keep it for the weekend , I can do it during the week . |
| 13 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 14 | No I think it was the rose fertiliser , they said use it for the tomatoes as well . |
| 15 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 16 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 17 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 18 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 19 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 20 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 21 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 22 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 23 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 24 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |