Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it for " in BNC.

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1 Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that .
2 It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path .
3 Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October .
4 Before beginning to investigate a complaint , the Commissioner will tell the complainant and the member that he has accepted it for investigation .
5 If you leave your gear on stage , you may find that someone else has moved it for you , and they wo n't be as careful as you .
6 A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me .
7 A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Sainsburys is er the very one that has done it for years !
11 He and Peter have always been good friends and David is the type of lad that once he 's made friends with someone , he has made it for life , ’ says Brian Gedge .
12 If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments .
13 Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects .
14 Your embassy has promised it for tomorrow . ’
15 Most of the federally owned land in the area is run by BLM , which has apportioned it for extensive commercial mining and ranching as well as for recreational use .
16 If your ferret continues to fail to reappear another possibility must be considered — that someone else passing by has recovered it for you !
17 KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain .
18 Omar Pound must know the full story , but rightly I think , though surely austerely , he has left it for us to piece together .
19 But he has not taken the word of a wiser man on trust , his private test has confirmed it for him .
20 Mr. Walker : As for that last phrase , the Hon. Gentleman obtained coverage in this morning 's papers , and I am surprised that he has repeated it for tomorrow 's .
21 As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ?
22 And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour
23 She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself .
24 Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time .
25 They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him .
26 In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism .
27 She 'd done it for him .
28 I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer .
29 I 'd done it for four years on the trot .
30 And she was going upstairs to turn the bed down she 'd done it for
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