Example sentences of "have [verb] it for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 3 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 4 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 6 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |
| 7 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 8 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 11 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 12 | Mm Dave Allen 's on that as well the only bit , I think I 've set it for the Beast Master ai n't I ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night . |
| 17 | Cos it 's not as if we have to keep it for the weekend , I can do it during the week . |
| 18 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 19 | I think Leeds have blown it for the league and there are sadly only one winners . |