Example sentences of "doing [indef pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 2 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 3 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 4 | Faced with the demise of their traditional courses , and with a government anxious both to increase the skills of the new unemployed young , and to be seen as doing something for the unemployed , colleges responded by mounting a programme of full-time non-vocational , or pre-vocational , courses . |
| 5 | Now , he wanted Terry to tell the US government to start doing something for the hostages . |
| 6 | We erm of course , this is besides the ordinary classes that they take erm now I believe there 's doing something for the erm , what was the one I looked at on the board the other day for tracing your ancestors back , you know . |
| 7 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 8 | Saddam has never been known for doing something for the benefit of others . |
| 9 | Mark 's doing something for the Prog . |
| 10 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |