Example sentences of "[prep] do [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 2 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 3 | The right approach might possibly be along the lines of : ‘ How about the family closing ranks and getting together now that you need a little help ? ’ or ‘ Give us the pleasure of doing something for you for a change . ’ |
| 4 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 5 | These risks may well be outweighed by the risks of doing nothing for Russia , which is why the G7 has pushed the Fund to do more . |
| 6 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 8 | With modern-day technology it is getting harder to achieve all the time , but there is one common denominator in the case of Eric Liddell and Allan Wells , and that is the fierce determination to win and the intense pride of doing it for Scotland . |
| 9 | When you have n't got no one , you have to , sort of like find a way of doing it for yourself and it 's much harder . |
| 10 | Because what 's the point in doing no matter how good you think you 're doing , what 's the point of doing it for yourself in the living room , you want er everybody to listen to it . |
| 11 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 12 | Saddam has never been known for doing something for the benefit of others . |
| 13 | If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him . |
| 14 | These developed from the legal concept of ultra vires ( beyond the strength ) which , since the mid nineteenth century , had prohibited local councils from doing anything for which they could not show precise legal authority . |
| 15 | For example , it uses ‘ Wizards ’ to guide you step-by-step through relatively complex procedures asking questions about what you want to achieve before doing it for you . |
| 16 | They have to rely on doing everything for themselves rather than sharing the tasks . |
| 17 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 18 | start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve . |
| 19 | I could feel the same horror burning through Tom and Terry — the impotence , the rage , the fear and shame at doing nothing for our friend . |
| 20 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 21 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |