Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 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 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 4 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 5 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 8 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 9 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 10 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 15 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |