Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’
2 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
3 But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’
4 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 .
5 So , have you done it for the deadline ?
6 They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor .
7 She done it for the burial club money .
8 As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world .
9 He would n't have missed it for the world . ’
10 ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy .
11 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 ) .
12 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 .
13 Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night .
14 Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion .
15 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 ?
16 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 ?
17 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 .
18 It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years .
19 The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor .
20 I think Leeds have blown it for the league and there are sadly only one winners .
21 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 . ’
  Next page