Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pers pn] for [pers pn] " 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 | Mum always opened the letters but I had to read them for her . |
8 | Right there I 've checked it for you . |
9 | 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 |
10 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
11 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | She 'd done it for him . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She saw the sudden gleam in his eyes , male and provocative , and realised too late how easy she had made it for him . |
18 | My my er my the convincing I have to do in myself and and you have to do it for me is whether this is is the right platform for you . |
19 | The forts and barracks have gone up , an iron chain along the Great Glen , an iron ring round the coasts — you have built it for them , you have clamped these fetters on your own wrists , and I do not excuse myself — my first work was mending the roof of the arsenal at Fort Augustus in 1784 . |
20 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
21 | John-William had not cut his wages this time , and no one had thanked him for it . |
22 | Could they have blown it for you ? |
23 | John McFarlane , Donald Brydon , the Katherine Howards , the Iain Dobbies , they 've made it for me . ’ |
24 | ‘ They 've mistaken you for me , my boy , ’ Lewis said grimly . |
25 | They had left it for me to finish alone on a chill blue , lonely morning five centuries later . |
26 | Omar Pound must know the full story , but rightly I think , though surely austerely , he has left it for us to piece together . |
27 | Prim and proper had always been her way , and he 'd appreciated her for it . |
28 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
29 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
30 | ‘ I did n't say he 's written it for me . |