Example sentences of "[noun sg] i do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 2 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 3 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 4 | As the work I do for Thee , and by Thee , |
| 5 | If I could speak French like François Mitterrand I probably would n't have the empathy I do for young horses . |
| 6 | No , that filthy little American soap I did for Hal Screwyouupalotodos . |
| 7 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 8 | She made two journeys up it , muttering to herself : ‘ It 's the last thing I do for the nigger . |
| 9 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for you , Mikhail . |
| 10 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for more than three years , ’ said Norman , who was a coppersmith at GEC in Manchester . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert ’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved . |
| 12 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |