Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] [indef pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night 's lovemaking had changed everything for Sarella herself ; she had never guessed it could be like that , and she could n't imagine that it might not have been as earth-shattering for Marc too . |
| 2 | My winning has done something for them as well as me . |
| 3 | Joe Harris , chairman Darlington Licensed Victualler 's Association : ‘ The Chancellor has done nothing for us with this Budget , times are hard enough for publicans . |
| 4 | He wanted to know whether Wickham had arrested anyone for the murder because until then he could not face going to work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We bought , we bought him a load of revision books erm from Smith 's er not for maths but for chemistry , biology , physics , ma , not maths something else , Cherry went and bought four of them and Helen had got one for French anyway , so we told him he 's got to erm get down to some serious |
| 7 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 8 | American , Australia , Canada , New Zealand , France , Denmark , Holland , Norway and Greece all have them — Sweden has had one for more than 200 years . |
| 9 | Such neglect has done nothing for their confidence . |
| 10 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 11 | France and civilian life has done nothing for him , and so he is off to Algeria to get tanned and fight . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My sleep had done something for me . |
| 14 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 15 | I mean , I do n't want any players thinking IMG had done nothing for them . |
| 16 | I did n't know Jim had recorded one for him . |
| 17 | The deal , announced by Mr Major in the Commons last week , is designed to answer Labour accusations that his six-month EC presidency has done nothing for jobs . |
| 18 | ‘ Nurse has got something for you . |
| 19 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |