Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 2 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 3 | He seemed to take it for granted that she was the one to talk to . |
| 4 | He seemed to take it for granted that everyone would do what he told them . |
| 5 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 6 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had to see it for himself . |
| 10 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 11 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 12 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 13 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 14 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 19 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 20 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 21 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 22 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 23 | He had taken it for granted that the other reasons did n't need to be spelled out . |
| 24 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He did it because he was intoxicated by it : and he had found it for himself . |
| 27 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 28 | He had bought it for less than seventeen thousand and had spent five thousand on it to date , expecting to sell it for at least forty . |
| 29 | When police approached Robert Francis , who was in possession of the caravan , he claimed he had bought it for £2,000 from a colleague . |