Example sentences of "[pers pn] do for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made two journeys up it , muttering to herself : ‘ It 's the last thing I do for the nigger . |
| 2 | I am always at risk in the things I do for the Motherland , but idiots create the kind of additional risks one can not always allow for . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 4 | Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert ’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved . |
| 5 | The more I did for the Trust , the more I learnt about pregnancy , birth , breastfeeding , motherhood and myself . |
| 6 | What did you do for the BBC competition ? |
| 7 | As Tom Wolfe once remarked about Phil Spector , another creative talent who peaked when he was young : what do you do for the rest of your life ? |
| 8 | ‘ Did you do for the bastard ? ’ he asked as I approached . |
| 9 | Bank Assistants , ask not what the IBOA can do for you but what can you do for the IBOA to get justice for your claim . |
| 10 | Finally I went to James Roose-Evans , who 'd adapted 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and said , ‘ What are you doing for the rest of your life ? ’ |
| 11 | What are you doing for the environment ? |
| 12 | ‘ So , you were a good , hard-working skivvy ; and the work that you did for the Clarion — was that worthwhile , too ? ’ |
| 13 | Well , you take that out of the stream , take it home , bake it , powder it and put it in a box ; and you use oils with it the same as you do for the milch . |
| 14 | How risky in terms of money/reputation is the job you do for the company ? |
| 15 | ‘ Think we do n't know about the carvings you do for the hospital ? ’ he asked , then smiled at her look of astonishment . |
| 16 | ‘ What is it you do for the Airds , our friends ? ’ he said desperately . |
| 17 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 18 | and er I said to her do you miss London ? , and she said well she does for the theatre and that because they were only a short tube ride away from the West from the West End theatre 's and she said there 's more on in Poole here than there is in Bournemouth in terms of plays and |
| 19 | Right next one , which is find the argument of Z one times Z two Yeah , again a couple of different ways of doing it , what you can do is you find the argument of Z one , find the argument of Z two , and then what , what will we do for the answers , add them together to get the to , arguments to something worth together , we add them , or we can work out Z one times Z two and then just find a modulist of that complex number , now which way do you want to do it ? |
| 20 | To come to the point , what shall we do for the rest of the week ? |
| 21 | Why do not we set an example in Scotland , as we did for the poll tax ? |
| 22 | The catechist will read out in the same way as we did for the Celebration of Enrolment , erm whichever catechist is doing will say I present to you and call out a name , and you stand up in your seat with your parents . |
| 23 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 24 | But seriously the work we do for the union is only one part of the equation . |
| 25 | Middle-age when the fact of death — impermanence , and our own slackening of impetus — is the dominant , the clef changing the notation ; what we do , we do for the n th time . |
| 26 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
| 27 | erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates . |
| 28 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
| 29 | What they doing for the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 30 | However , even the inland counties might find themselves paying as much in local military taxes as they did for the subsidy ; and coastal shires might well pay more . |