Example sentences of "do [pers pn] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
6 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
7 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
8 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
13 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I mean I ai n't doing it for a whole week . |
16 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
17 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |