Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for the " 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 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 3 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So , have you done it for the deadline ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 11 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 15 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 16 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 19 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 21 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night . |
| 26 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 27 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 28 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 29 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 30 | 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 ? |