Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 2 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 3 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 4 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 5 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 6 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 7 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 8 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 13 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 14 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No I think it was the rose fertiliser , they said use it for the tomatoes as well . |
| 17 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 18 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Applicants were given cash grants , usually no more than £75 , and trusted to use it for the purpose they had proposed - such as buying a bicycle to do a newspaper round , obtaining equipment for a camping trip , or acquiring the wherewithal to learn a new skill or a sport . |