Example sentences of "doing [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third term reforms to local government , the ‘ inner-city ’ policies , were much less about doing good for the poor and arresting decline and decay than about undermining Labour 's power bases . |
| 2 | It was very satisfactory and the two girls went to Helen 's flat to celebrate with a drink and discuss the possibility of doing work for the pet shop in Seabourne . |
| 3 | ‘ About 15 years ago , I was in Africa doing work for the oil refineries . |
| 4 | Those people who have the record sheets from last week , ten , ten people that are doing work for the British National Corpus . |
| 5 | A classic case of a change of publisher doing wonders for the author . |
| 6 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 7 | And I think first of all , make sure you 've got it right , make sure you are doing things for the right reasons , and you are concerned about the right issues , but then , shout about it from the rooftops . |
| 8 | The Colonel had built his career on doing favours for the CIA — but Trent 's contact was with Caspar from the DEA . |
| 9 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 10 | By the way why have n't you been doing games for the past I do n't know six months ? |
| 11 | We , we kept on er making or doing repairs for the Ministry of Works for about ooh seven or eight years after the war finished , which kept a lot of men working in Galashiels when we , you know , when they were n't very sure if they could come back to their old jobs . |
| 12 | According to the company 's product manager , Howard Green , ‘ it 's a fair assumption to make that the company will be doing implementations for the Alpha , but we 're still negotiating terms . ’ |
| 13 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |