Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Quinn then seemed to have won it for City with a 51st-minute header but Steve Whitton levelled again from the penalty spot . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have won it for Everton . |
| 4 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think Manchester had too many chances in extra time and a Falconer goal would have won it for us . |
| 6 | The only bad thing of course , if we were to get relegated but to bring promotion and relegation into speedway is a good thing because you know , if you win the lower league , what have you won it for ? |
| 7 | ‘ Solving problems , however was not Highlander 's purpose , its purpose to ‘ help people learn to solve their problems in their own way , ’ and in its life since then Highlander has always worked with the under-privileged , exploited , relatively powerless communities which have approached it for assistance . |
| 8 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 9 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 10 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I could have resolved it for you , ’ he said , ‘ if only you 'd come to see me earlier . |
| 13 | My violin teacher had recommended it for chamber music , and when I found out that on one of the weeks the famous violinist , Ruggiero Ricci , would be there , I was certain that I would go . |
| 14 | You have n't owned it for over a year . |
| 15 | The woman solved it for me by stopping and following Marcus out of the room . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , Florian Jones had organised it for me . ’ |
| 17 | We had booked it for Easter in 1962 , along with two friends from Glasgow . |
| 18 | Because he 's booked it for Monday you see . |
| 19 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 20 | It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him . |
| 21 | They 're proud of their DIY achievements , which they often find better — and a lot more satisfying — than if a professional had done it for them . |
| 22 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 23 | He done it for his soldiers , to show them what they had to do . |
| 24 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 25 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 26 | In the hushed , beaten dressing-room after the World Cup final , there was a united whisper — ‘ If only we could have done it for Goochie ’ . |
| 27 | In the hushed , beaten dressing-room after the World Cup final , there was a united whisper — ‘ If only we could have done it for Goochie ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She 'd done it for him . |
| 30 | That would have done it for her , the uncertainty . |