Example sentences of "[verb] do it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 2 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 3 | I 'll have a go , but I 'm not going to do it for two or three |
| 4 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 5 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 6 | Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material . |
| 7 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 8 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 9 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 10 | So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this . |
| 11 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 12 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 13 | Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with |
| 14 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |
| 15 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |