Example sentences of "have [verb] it for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches .
2 Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion .
3 ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’
4 As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world .
5 He would n't have missed it for the world . ’
6 ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy .
7 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 .
8 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
9 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
10 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 .
11 They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor .
12 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 .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians .
16 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 . ’
17 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 ) .
18 Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night .
19 Cos it 's not as if we have to keep it for the weekend , I can do it during the week .
20 I have therefore not attempted to consider that point , but have assumed it for the purposes of this judgment …
21 It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years .
22 I think Leeds have blown it for the league and there are sadly only one winners .
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