Example sentences of "[verb] something for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple
2 And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start .
3 ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’
4 Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’
5 The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time .
6 Every increase in the price expected will , as a rule , induce some people who would not otherwise have produced anything , to produce a-little ; and those , who have produced something for the lower price , will produce more for the higher price .
7 ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said .
8 Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April .
9 He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk .
10 We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills .
11 We want to do something for the voluntary sector .
12 I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time .
13 I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good .
14 It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia .
15 That younger element , are doing something for the local community .
16 Meanwhile , single mothers will sit and watch the TV and watch the advertisements which all show either happy couples or one single person doing something for an unseen other : ironing his shirts , organising their mortgage , driving his Audi to visit her .
17 There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes :
18 Did something for the common good .
19 In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition .
20 In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition .
21 Azmaveth considered something for a few moments and then nodded to herself , as if she 'd made a decision .
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