Example sentences of "do [pron] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 2 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 7 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | JOHN Carroll will do anything for a quiet life , according to his young daughters . |
| 12 | Louis would do anything for a pretty girl . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . " |
| 14 | We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills . |
| 15 | We want to do something for the voluntary sector . |
| 16 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 17 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 18 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 19 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 22 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 23 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 24 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 25 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 26 | I mean I ai n't doing it for a whole week . |
| 27 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 28 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 29 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 30 | The thing is they wo n't be going shopping , they wo n't be doing anything for a long time and she 's |