Example sentences of "done for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should be encouraged to think of sport as healthy exercise done for fun , rather than for competition . |
| 2 | At the same school filming was done for Frank 's less auspicious performance . |
| 3 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |
| 4 | Then John got done for burglary and he was put away five days before I got out . |
| 5 | Pouring the wine , just as he 'd done for Marianne Novaks . |
| 6 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
| 7 | I just had to write to you , to tell the Tennis World readers what a certain , beautiful lady has done for tennis and for her supporters . |
| 8 | ‘ Real religion ’ , he said , was concerned with ‘ the quest of the Highest , the practical doing of good , the helping of the weaker , and the unselfish work done for others ’ . |
| 9 | If this could be done for one product , it could be done for others with their own market strategies and situations . |
| 10 | It is the charity that really gets things done for birds the countryside — action for birds , on your behalf . |
| 11 | Done for possession of Class A drugs in New York . ’ |
| 12 | He 's been fined twice for assaulting policemen ; done for drugs ; fined and banned repeatedly for speeding ( following one conviction for doing 103 mph without a licence he said : ‘ I was only doing 95mph . |
| 13 | Much PCR work has been done for rotavirus , adenovirus , and other causes of diarrhoea . |
| 14 | Indeed , the Conservative Party did begin to widen its potential appeal by issuing a plethora of pamphlets in the 1920s : Aims and Principles ( 1924 ) , What Unionists have done for Workers ( 1925 ) , What the Conservative Government has done for Education ( 1928 ) and What the Conservative Government has done for Health ( 1929 ) . |
| 15 | The public spectacle of culture , the adoption of culture by the media , the standardisation of culture , the cultural discourse , cultural self-satisfaction , a slack cultural conformism , the recuperation of culture never has so much apparently been done for culture , never have the results ( another word that deserves some elaboration ) been so disappointing . |
| 16 | Anyway , it was not done for profit . |
| 17 | What more , for example , could Mr Marshall have done for Helmut ? |
| 18 | Miguel took the card and wrote on it what had been done for Samantha . |
| 19 | Consider , then , what geography and generation together have done for Darwin 's understanding of the problems of organic diversity and the origin of species . |
| 20 | Research done for Philips testifies to the importance that the police now attach to interrogation of suspects and the procuring of confessions from the guilty . |
| 21 | Ruth had to look away , ashamed ; what had she ever done for Fand , except break that promise to her ? |
| 22 | I think that er concern should also spread to animals that are hunted pleasure as well , i.e. the stags , deer , foxes , hares , I mean , there 's there 's quite a considerable list that 's all done for entertainment . |
| 23 | They also insist that hunting is not done for sport , as it is in many ‘ sophisticated ’ countries , although they may admit that all forms of traditional hunting take on a certain glamour , especially in the minds of the younger men . |
| 24 | But Emeth is saved , for good deeds done for Tash belong to Aslan , and bad deeds for Aslan to Tash ; as if to say that God and Allah are different , but yet that virtuous Mohammedans will be saved rather than murderous Christians . |
| 25 | He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity . |
| 26 | May I join in the admiration and respect which all concerned , including J. 's mother , have expressed for what the foster parents have done for J. |
| 27 | It would n't have done for Laura to have suspected it , but I was pretty worried about her . |
| 28 | If they 've asked for really impossible things , it means the whole siege has been done for publicity — and they 'll probably kill Liam whatever happens . |
| 29 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 30 | If you go for a pint at dinnertime you 'd Yeah you 're driving and you Ca n't you get done for drink driving ? |