Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 2 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 3 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 4 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 5 | We have n't done it for a while . |
| 6 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 7 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 8 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 9 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 10 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 11 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
| 12 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So , have you done it for the deadline ? |
| 15 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 16 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 18 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 19 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 20 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 21 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 22 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 23 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 26 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 27 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 28 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 29 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |