Example sentences of "do it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | I found out later Sonia had done it for her . |
| 33 | But banks unfortunately do charge , negotiating fee and then interest at exciting rates , erm solicitors will do it sometimes , we 've done it for clients where we know that it 's not too large an amount and we know that there are assets easily obtained because that way the client saves the banks administration fee . |
| 34 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 35 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 36 | We have n't done it for a while . |
| 37 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 38 | But if you try and go back to it , when you have n't done it for years , you realize how complicated it was . |
| 39 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 40 | I know girls who say , ‘ Oh , I 've never done it for money , but he 'll give me this and that ’ . |
| 41 | I mean I 've done it for love ! ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 43 | I 've done it for my grandchildren this year . |
| 44 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 45 | Leary had been diffident about approaching Joseph although it might have advanced his career , but Durance appeared to have done it for him . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | I 've done it for years , and if I may say it myself , I 'm quite good at it . |
| 48 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 49 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 50 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 51 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 52 | I have done it for years . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 55 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 56 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
| 57 | He 'd have done it for anyone . |
| 58 | It 's very tragic but he would have done it for anybody . |
| 59 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 60 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |