Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 32 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 33 | It 's done nothing for the box . |
| 34 | They had to choose someone for the launching ceremony and our child 's name was first out of the hat . |
| 35 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 36 | It is true that right at the end , in October 1097 , when Anselm was on the point of leaving England , Eadmer reports him as saying to the Canterbury monks : ‘ I go willingly , trusting in God 's mercy that my journey will do something for the liberty of the Church in future times . ’ |
| 37 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 40 | Runner-up River Falls , beaten a head , and his stablemate Swing Low , third , are both in the 2,000 Guineas but Richard Hannon will send one for the Italian version . |
| 41 | Botha dropped an early goal , Ian Hunter thundered over for an unforgettable try , and Drikus Hattingh scored one for the tourists just before the break . |
| 42 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
| 43 | It says something for the delicacy of the proposal that it comes not from the Japanese government , but from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party . |
| 44 | ‘ This says something for the era in which projects have to be approved by television , ’ he told me . |
| 45 | ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’ |
| 46 | He says the children were singing ’ always look on the bright side of life ’ which says something for the spirit of the school . |
| 47 | It takes a year to organize this grand event and it says something for the racecourse when the only thing that went wrong yesterday was the weather . |
| 48 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 49 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 50 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 51 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 52 | She added something for the panel to remember her by — sheer seamed black tights with black and grey checked flat shoes and , on the lapel of her jacket , a blue glass antique brooch . |
| 53 | Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) . |
| 54 | Presumably they 'd never done anyone for the job . |
| 55 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 56 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 60 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |