Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] something for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right approach might possibly be along the lines of : ‘ How about the family closing ranks and getting together now that you need a little help ? ’ or ‘ Give us the pleasure of doing something for you for a change . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | LIFESPAN always uses the term Quality Assurance ( QA ) to mean the act of assessing something for its fitness for a specified purpose . |
| 4 | And it 's possible that the curious telephone conversation in the flat , with its reference to postponing something for a week , related to your time limit . |
| 5 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 6 | John Wallace , one of the magistrates of the burgh of Arbroath , explained his reasons for seeking a sinecure appointment worth £50 or so for his son , by emphasising his fear that ‘ the lad will turn out but indifferently qualified for business otherways I should not give so much trouble in asking something for him … |
| 7 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 8 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |
| 9 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |