Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me . |
| 2 | A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me . |
| 3 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . |
| 5 | Are you going to throw that flaming dice or do I have to do it for you ? |
| 6 | Do I have to do it for you ? |
| 7 | I had felt it for my mother before my father left when she would intercept his post , putting certain violet-scented envelopes into the pocket of her dress and steaming them open in the kitchen after he had left for work . |
| 8 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 9 | Mum always opened the letters but I had to read them for her . |
| 10 | Right there I 've checked it for you . |
| 11 | I 've done it for my grandchildren this year . |
| 12 | oh yes he said I 've worked it out those extra hours I 've paid you for them but I thought you actually worked for them for nothing and I 've just given you a bonus |
| 13 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
| 14 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
| 15 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
| 16 | She remembered that Aycliffe had brought up the matter of clothes , that Benedict himself had scolded her for her nip-cheese ways . |
| 17 | She 'd done it for him . |
| 18 | She 'd drawn them for him with eyebrow pencil on yesterday 's newspaper ; he 'd recalled Margaret 's silver propelling pencil and the small notebook she always carried . |
| 19 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 20 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |
| 21 | You 've ruined it for everyone . |
| 22 | She … well , you 've seen her for yourself , have n't you ? |
| 23 | next thing I remember was being undressed and in bed with Debbie standing there with a boiled egg on a tray , saying mummy were so sorry you 'll never do Christmas again , you 've done it for us for forty years , we shall do it for you now . |
| 24 | Quite apart from all the pictures in the papers , she had seen it for herself at the presentation . |
| 25 | She saw the sudden gleam in his eyes , male and provocative , and realised too late how easy she had made it for him . |
| 26 | From her encouraging smile I realised she had suggested me for something . |
| 27 | His father who mended the broken wings of birds , his mother who had loved him for his gentleness ? |
| 28 | He lived in a world of his own mythology peopled by an enemy of his own creation — the Jewish Communists with the razors — who had marked him for what he was . |
| 29 | Elfman used to boast to anyone who would listen that he was able to auto-fellate with the minimum of effort , making him the envy of every young buck who had tried it for himself and only succeeded in collapsing with a racking backache . |
| 30 | He was still the hard , ambitious man who had married her for her father 's company , not for love . |