Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it for the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
2 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
3 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
8 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |