Example sentences of "do [pron] for [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 9 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 10 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 11 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 12 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 13 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | JOHN Carroll will do anything for a quiet life , according to his young daughters . |
| 18 | Louis would do anything for a pretty girl . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . " |
| 20 | We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills . |
| 21 | We want to do something for the voluntary sector . |
| 22 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 23 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 24 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 25 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 26 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |