Example sentences of "[conj] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know what does for a living or does for a living . |
| 2 | It is of course easier said than done for someone suffering from anorexia simply to follow this recovery plan . |
| 3 | That is easier said than done for cash-strapped City , who are said to be losing £10,000 a week . |
| 4 | ‘ It was my heavy bones that did for me , as you well know ! ’ |
| 5 | Cheery posters hung on the wall , and there were a lot of tables shaped like children 's bricks that did for stools or in-trays , made of clear Perspex and spotted with dabs of red and blue paint . |
| 6 | It was the kiss that did for me , I think , not being called a goldmine . |
| 7 | ’ It was the drink that did for George in the end , ’ said Emily . |
| 8 | So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas . |
| 9 | For ( T+10 ) k more particles have sufficient energy to overcome the energy barrier than do for Tk . |
| 10 | This booklet tells you what you need to know and do for a healthy pregnancy , and the delivery of a healthy baby . |
| 11 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ Had I paid heed to the advice of many people in England … and adopted masculine garments , I should have been spiked to the bone , and done for . ‘ |
| 13 | He thrust it into her hand and thundered past her , calling over his shoulder , ‘ They 've gone and done for us now — them Japs and the management ! ’ |
| 14 | It 's good to have someone to bounce ideas off and talk to — it 's something men have known about and done for years . |
| 15 | … This division of land into small pieces , and the scattering of the dwellings , was occasioned by , and done for the convenience of the business which the people were generally employ 'd in … |
| 16 | The worst atrocities took place in the corridors running off the hall where he had been horrified to see " a man lying on the floor , obviously powerless and done for , being mercilessly kicked and horribly handled by a group of Blackshirts " . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection ( 1 ) above , where a person , having possession or control ( lawfully or not ) of property belonging to another , parts with the property under a condition as to its return which he may not be able to perform , this ( if done for purposes of his own and without the other 's authority ) amounts to treating the property as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights . |
| 18 | Section 6(2) states : … where a person , having possession or control ( lawfully or not ) of property belonging to another , parts with the property under a condition as to its return which he may not be able to perform this ( if done for purposes of his own and without the other 's authority ) amounts to treating the property as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights . |
| 19 | He is sent to replace Jesus among the disciples and to do for them what Jesus had done on earth . |
| 20 | Either compliment can bring tears and do for me what the Last Post did for my father . |
| 21 | One can not argue of Co-operation then both that it was the dividend that did it , and did for it . |
| 22 | Some of these royal gifts presented the warden with a formidable task : in December 1238 the sheriff of Essex and Richard de Munfichet , warden of the forest of Essex , were ordered to take alive in the forest 120 bucks and does for the Count of Flanders , put them in cages , and transport them in carts to the Thames , where Raymond Ruffus , a yeoman of the king , was to have a ship ready to take them to Flanders . |
| 23 | However , given a lower tolerance and consequent lower recommended intake , the same health benefits apply to moderate female drinking as do for men . |
| 24 | This is probably the reason for its universal acceptance as something to be cherished , and for its survival despite all religious disapproval which from time to time has endeavoured to denigrate it , as did for example , some of the teachings of Puritanism . |
| 25 | Largely through the method of government recognition and financing of laboratories , the separation of school science into separate ‘ subjects ’ , physics , chemistry , and biology , became firmly established before the end of the century , as did for quite other reasons the exclusion of geology . |
| 26 | One claimed in 1808 that of 50,000 people , excluding 20,000 nailors , engaged in hardware production in Birmingham and the surrounding district , as many produced for American consumption as did for the home market . |
| 27 | John Tutchin , who produced his Observator twice a week from 1702 until his death in 1707 , worked for the Junto Whigs , as did for a while that indefatigable pamphleteer , Daniel Defoe . |