Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's more or less what we were going to do for Fenella and Caspar . |
| 2 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 3 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 4 | It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office . |
| 5 | For instance , it 's perfectly obvious that what I was trying to do for my clients was patch up their lives and their relationships in a way that I 'd been unable to do for my parents . |
| 6 | In other words , he is free to do what Picasso was trying to do for him in his painting . |