Example sentences of "had do [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 2 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 7 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |