Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 2 | I produce it for the mainstay of the tourniquet . |
| 3 | It was n't easy to make a show with such diverse voices pull together and some of what I wrote did n't fit in ( I kept it for The Pie of Damocles later that year though ) . |
| 4 | I do it for the thrill of winning something , like in Barcelona . |
| 5 | I do it for the love of music but I got to survive . |
| 6 | Oh when I do it for the week I 'm gon na get a twenty five pound voucher for Marks and Spencers . |
| 7 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 8 | I did it for the girl , he protested . |
| 9 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 10 | his school sports and said I did it for the sake of the children ! |
| 11 | I said it for the crack , to wind you up . |
| 12 | A case of bread and circuses , and it 's about time someone said it for the rave generation . |
| 13 | Tough shit really , but I soften it for the sake of the delicacies of future interaction . |
| 14 | When he told Mrs Race , she clouted the boy across the face and her remark became one of our family jokes : ‘ I would n't care , I wanted it for the lamp . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't drink ordinary beer for the taste : I drink it for the alcohol . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Who holds it for the Empress ? ’ |
| 17 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 18 | So , have you done it for the deadline ? |
| 19 | In 1924 his widow sold the dramatic rights of Dracula to Hamilton Deane , who adapted it for the stage ; in 1930 the rights were bought by the Universal Pictures Corporation of Hollywood for $40,000 . |
| 20 | Aye I said , so she said the landlord 's never put it down so we thought he 'd have had it down by she come home cos Alison seen it and where they work and th and there 's a room there or something and she 'd asked the boss could she have it for the bathroom . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 23 | She needed it for the letter she was going to write in a minute to Nora . |
| 24 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 25 | You carry it for the duration of five decades of the Rosary ( about ten minutes ) , recited by the trio immediately behind . |
| 26 | I know you do it for the good of us but I still like to buy you something as a thank you . |
| 27 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 28 | You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people |
| 29 | ‘ Shall you wear it for the picnic ? ’ |
| 30 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |