Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] do [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 2 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 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 | We want to do something for the voluntary sector . |
| 5 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 6 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 7 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 8 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 12 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 13 | In 1985 a smooth man ’ , a ‘ sophisticated hustler ’ appeared in Washington and approached North , saying he wanted to do something for the contras . |
| 14 | It 's done nothing for the box . |