Example sentences of "did it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living . |
| 2 | But whatever my Charlie did , he did it for me . |
| 3 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 4 | After all , the Japanese will say , we did it for you . |
| 5 | It was not at all my idea of pleasure , but I did it for Dana 's sake . |
| 6 | We did it for a laugh . |
| 7 | They usually did it for more obvious , sordid reasons ; they wanted money , they had fallen in love with someone else or lost their temper . |
| 8 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 9 | Her action is seen as an irrational or emotional response to a particular situation ; she ‘ only did it for love ’ , for example . |
| 10 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 11 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 12 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 13 | If it did it for them it can do it for me ! ’ |
| 14 | Like , I did it for three nights and I was wrecked ! ’ |
| 15 | After smashing Smith 's skull with a hammer , Langton went to Sharon 's house and said : ‘ I did it for you , ’ it was alleged . |
| 16 | When he did it for himself , the law jailed him |
| 17 | ‘ He did it for roughly the same reason as Clinton , an attempt to indicate consensus on economic and foreign policy , ’ says Dr King . |
| 18 | Only a quarter said they did it for love and just over one in six admitted it was a drunken fling . |
| 19 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 20 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |
| 21 | She did it for her father and liked to do so in the one part of the house that was totally his . |
| 22 | ‘ I did it for an introduction before the films came out in Europe , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Richard believes his playing at matches inspires the team and he said : ‘ I did it for a laugh at the first home game but now it 's taken off . |
| 24 | He did it for my own good . |
| 25 | I DID IT FOR LOVE SAYS GUN RAIDER , 74 |
| 26 | I did it for about six months here and there . |
| 27 | Fortunately , Mr Leland did it for her . |
| 28 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 29 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 30 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |