Example sentences of "had [verb] it for the [noun] " 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 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 .
6 In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians .
7 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 . ’
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