Example sentences of "[verb] something for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 2 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 3 | ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’ |
| 4 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 5 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 6 | Every increase in the price expected will , as a rule , induce some people who would not otherwise have produced anything , to produce a-little ; and those , who have produced something for the lower price , will produce more for the higher price . |
| 7 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 8 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 9 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 10 | We want to do something for the voluntary sector . |
| 11 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 12 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 13 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 14 | Faced with the demise of their traditional courses , and with a government anxious both to increase the skills of the new unemployed young , and to be seen as doing something for the unemployed , colleges responded by mounting a programme of full-time non-vocational , or pre-vocational , courses . |
| 15 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 17 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 18 | Did something for the common good . |
| 19 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 20 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |