Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My recurring nightmare is that I circle it for ever , never able to get off . |
| 2 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 3 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 4 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |
| 5 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 6 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 7 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 8 | When parliament allows groups of individuals to exercise such power it should come as no surprise that they use it for their own advantage and contrary to the public interest . |
| 9 | Our answer is that they bought it for no money down because there were able to . |
| 10 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that he rewrote it for Ken . |