Example sentences of "have [verb] it for [art] [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 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 3 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 4 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 6 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 7 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 9 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 10 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 13 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 18 | And I said is my caravan being cleaned weekly as people go out if they 've got it for a fortnight fortnightly . |
| 19 | Pic oh I 've got it for a week and if I get successful in doing so many tapes then I get twenty pound , twenty five pound v voucher to spend |
| 20 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 21 | I 've had it for a week . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You 've to watch it for a maximum of three minutes you dad says . |
| 26 | I 've swapped it for a couple of weeks . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 29 | I 've rented it for a fortnight . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |