Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 9 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 10 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 11 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night . |
| 16 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 21 | I have therefore not attempted to consider that point , but have assumed it for the purposes of this judgment … |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I think Leeds have blown it for the league and there are sadly only one winners . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |