Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't really drink myself , but I keep it for guests . |
| 2 | It 's wet through and 75% burnt but I kept it for you . " |
| 3 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
| 4 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 5 | All the women who say , ‘ I spend £40 on a pair of La Perla panties , but I do it for myself , ’ are A-cups . |
| 6 | It was not at all my idea of pleasure , but I did it for Dana 's sake . |
| 7 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 8 | It was my own fault , I suppose , for not telling you the whole truth , but I did it for your sake , because I loved you so much ! ’ |
| 9 | Yes , but I did it for him fo , I I 've already done it for him once , I picked up exactly what he wanted , I delivered it to him and now he 's changed his mind and but I 'm not in the business to supply things , I 'm not a supp shop ! |
| 10 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 11 | Tough shit really , but I soften it for the sake of the delicacies of future interaction . |
| 12 | I found it in a pawn shop and I was n't sure what it was , but I bought it for about 20 dollars . |
| 13 | You see we moan about paying three pound a pound for meat but you pay it for fish . |
| 14 | I , but you did it for |
| 15 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 16 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 17 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 18 | Claire says it 's always a challenge … you sometimes get cold … but she does it for enjoyment there 's no other reason |
| 19 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 20 | ’ But she bought it for me and it 's brilliant . |
| 21 | No , but we need it for |
| 22 | But Eileen replied reasonably , ‘ None of us was keen on her , Anne , but we hid it for Mum 's sake and Grandma never realised it . |
| 23 | ‘ But they bought it for £46 million and sold it six months later for £92 million , and there was nothing we could do about it . ’ |
| 24 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 25 | He , he home last in the fifty fly but he finished it for once . |
| 26 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 27 | Born in Warsaw in 1905 , his full name was Marius Ladislas Steniatowski , but he shortened it for convenience when his parents came to England in 1921 . |