Example sentences of "[vb past] do [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 2 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |
| 3 | She 'd done it for him . |
| 4 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 5 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 6 | And she was going upstairs to turn the bed down she 'd done it for |
| 7 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 8 | And then I agreed to do something for Émile that I did not wish to do , which made me ashamed . |
| 9 | In the course of a beauty parade , Price Waterhouse took the audit from Coopers & Lybrand , but agreed to do it for 14% less . |
| 10 | So we agreed to do it for him . |
| 11 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 12 | Minnis decided to do something for others who might similarly be afflicted which resulted in the Kenilworth Club and the PGL contributing annually to a fund . |
| 13 | And he added : ‘ It is important to me that the boys know I offered to do it for nothing . ’ |
| 14 | Frankie appeared as I was filling the kettle and offered to do it for me . |
| 15 | She offered to do it for Simon and he thought it was a good idea but er he never quite got around to doing it . |
| 16 | No … not if you really did do it for Mummy , of course … ’ |
| 17 | I mean , I do n't want any players thinking IMG had done nothing for them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 20 | For — while Sir Felix had nothing much wrong with him except a wild look in his eye sometimes and a tendency to go off in fits of what Gemma had called " unstable " laughter — she had heard certain tales of moral laxity about his brothers and uncles and even one or two of his sisters , which had done nothing for her peace of mind . |
| 21 | My sleep had done something for me . |
| 22 | It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him . |
| 23 | They 're proud of their DIY achievements , which they often find better — and a lot more satisfying — than if a professional had done it for them . |
| 24 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 25 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 26 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 27 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I found out later Sonia had done it for her . |
| 30 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |