Example sentences of "[verb] anything for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will save money and expense , but the question is , will it guarantee anything for the pensioners themselves ? |
| 2 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 3 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 5 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 6 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 7 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 8 | First , and obviously , does it do anything for the sufferer 's disease ? |
| 9 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 10 | would do anything for the crack |
| 11 | No , how about the men , do you do anything for the men ? |
| 12 | It really is important to get your statement , but first we 've got to see if we can do anything for the poor devil down there . " |
| 13 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
| 14 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 15 | ‘ You know that I 'll do anything for the children . |
| 16 | She says she 'll do anything for the safety of the children . |
| 17 | You got ta do anything for the kids parties this year or no ? |
| 18 | Although the courts have not expressly said so , it may be more difficult to do anything for the casus omissus . |
| 19 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative Government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick , ’ said Coun Williams . |
| 20 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 23 | And you just But as we were saying er talking to Janet afterwards there was another little one down at the side , erm mum was getting a bit irate with him , but you see they do n't take anything for the children to do . |
| 24 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 25 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 26 | However , the NFU and the SLF said their members were seriously concerned at the lack of a requirement for water authorities to seek a way-leave , particularly if the industry is privatised and any work carried out on private land would result in increased profits for the water company without its having to pay anything for the rights to gain access . |
| 27 | No , you do n't get , you do n't get anything for the membership ! |
| 28 | ‘ You never do anything right , you never do anything for the right reasons . |
| 29 | Nobody could believe that the Government do anything for the British coal industry because they are absent from the debate and have not done anything to help our plight . |
| 30 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |