Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 2 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 5 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 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 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 8 | I have therefore not attempted to consider that point , but have assumed it for the purposes of this judgment … |