Example sentences of "[pers pn] do [pers pn] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 2 | Richard believes his playing at matches inspires the team and he said : ‘ I did it for a laugh at the first home game but now it 's taken off . |
| 3 | I told you I did it for a bet . ’ |
| 4 | I did it for a bet — with one of my uncles , his side being that I would n't stick to anything — and because it seemed as good a way as any of getting away from home , but I was not uninterested and I have not forgotten my subject . ’ |
| 5 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |
| 6 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 7 | Then when you 've all found a good combination , you do it for a while , then you turn on the tape machine … |
| 8 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |
| 9 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 10 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 11 | We did it for a laugh . |
| 12 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 13 | He did it for a laugh . ’ |