Example sentences of "had [verb] it for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 2 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 3 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 7 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 8 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 9 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 10 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 11 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 12 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |