Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] done [pron] for " in BNC.

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1 A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me .
2 A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me .
3 I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer .
4 I 'd done it for four years on the trot .
5 I 've done everything for peace , you know I have . ’
6 I 've done everything for Liverpool , and playing in the World Cup finals is probably the only big ambition I 've got left .
7 I 've done it for seven years .
8 I mean I 've done it for love ! ’
9 I 've done it for my grandchildren this year .
10 I 've done it for years , and if I may say it myself , I 'm quite good at it .
11 I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it
12 Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there .
13 I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up
14 And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year .
15 So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this .
16 I have done it for years .
17 I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them .
18 He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect .
19 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 .
20 We had everything beaten expect Jodami , who has done us for foot . ’
21 She 'd done it for him .
22 And she was going upstairs to turn the bed down she 'd done it for
23 It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking .
24 You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years .
25 You 've done nothing for him except wreck his life .
26 next thing I remember was being undressed and in bed with Debbie standing there with a boiled egg on a tray , saying mummy were so sorry you 'll never do Christmas again , you 've done it for us for forty years , we shall do it for you now .
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 In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years .
29 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 .
30 And we 've done nothing for two years . ’
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