Example sentences of "[verb] things for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 2 | He did n't really strike her as a particularly nosy person , just wanting to know things for the hell of it . |
| 3 | If we can do things for the kids then that 's fine , a bonus , but otherwise we are trying to help the system , to respond to what it wants of us . |
| 4 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 5 | Both the house expenses , the , the room and also provision of food and cleaning things for the presum for because of the involvement with children . |
| 6 | ‘ Nicola said he was the man sent over to organise things for the Mafia . |
| 7 | but it falls down in front of the unexpected , when you actually do see things for the first time . |
| 8 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 9 | When they went out on their own with girls , they tended to fix things for the same evening so as not to spend two nights separated where one would do . |
| 10 | The family member will continue to do things for the primary sufferer ( providing food and shelter and other necessities of life , tidying up the messes , telling lies or half-truths to " cover up " , paying off debts or fines , providing bail , apologising on his or her behalf and generally doing everything possible to protect the primary sufferer from the consequences of his or her disease ) regardless of the demonstrable fact that these actions do not help the sufferer to get into recovery . |
| 11 | [ These would ] enable us to do things for the alliance which they ca n't do . |
| 12 | And it 's , I 'm going to do things for the house like I want to make erm Chris has put back the rail over my windowsill . |
| 13 | They 're always buying things for the home . |
| 14 | I know , but where , no point in buying things for the pr just for the sake of it |
| 15 | It was rough but you know it , it w it was petty things that we was in trouble for , not , nothing sin I mean we would never think of mugging anybody or vandalizing things for the sake of vandalizing . |
| 16 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 17 | And I think first of all , make sure you 've got it right , make sure you are doing things for the right reasons , and you are concerned about the right issues , but then , shout about it from the rooftops . |
| 18 | I had heard Jean-Claude say that everything was cheap there , and I needed things for the attic . |
| 19 | May we use our anger in a productive way to try and change things for the better . |
| 20 | I mean I would n't change things for the world with him [ the child ] but how else can you do it ? |
| 21 | How can we appeal to part time workers and convince them that we can change things for the better , many of whom are home workers who are working in appalling conditions and often for less than fifty pence an hour ? |
| 22 | Amanda Mares , the producer , might bear in mind that listeners hearing things for the first time need a second or two to focus . |
| 23 | ‘ Norman Campbell , why must you always be so cynical and spoil things for the child ? ’ |
| 24 | Nevertheless , those people who want to develop Labour politics in the province and to change things for the better should at least be given the chance to try . |
| 25 | They should also be building the conviction of teachers that it is possible to change things for the better . |
| 26 | What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now ? |
| 27 | to change things for the good . |
| 28 | Er I ca n't , you know , there seems to be an inconsistency in so many people who are against national wars but er would say that what we need is a revolutionary situation in order to change things for the better within society . |
| 29 | That means working to change things for the better . |
| 30 | ‘ They do things for the fell of it and not for some kind of career motive . |