Example sentences of "doing [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'll not likely be doing them for a while . ’ |
| 2 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 3 | She was doing them for him . ’ |
| 4 | start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve . |
| 5 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 6 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 7 | You 'd be doing nothing for hours , kicking your heels on the boundary , then , without any warning , the ball would be skied towards you , and suddenly the outcome of the entire match would rest on your shoulders . |
| 8 | These risks may well be outweighed by the risks of doing nothing for Russia , which is why the G7 has pushed the Fund to do more . |
| 9 | I could feel the same horror burning through Tom and Terry — the impotence , the rage , the fear and shame at doing nothing for our friend . |
| 10 | She longed for some proper clothes too — having to wear one of his large baggy T-shirts was doing nothing for her self-image . |
| 11 | Mrs from Darlaston says , they are victimizing the men who are working erm need to chase those men who are doing nothing for their families . |
| 12 | This lotus-eating life was doing nothing for her . |
| 13 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 14 | he comes round , and just say no , I 'm not doing nothing for you . |
| 15 | But , I thought that now that the M S has acquired that bus and it 's going to be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus . |
| 16 | And he says , he says er he says I will not move my car and I do n't get told anything , you know , I 'm not doing nothing for you , you do n't belong in this country and all this stuff |
| 17 | well it is n't even a priority , it 's nothing , they wo n't get the money , th they wo n't pay for walk to go swimming but I thought that now that the has acquired that bus and it 's gon na be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus . |
| 18 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 19 | Well , I do but our Karen do n't , so I 'm not doing one for mesen . |
| 20 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , single mothers will sit and watch the TV and watch the advertisements which all show either happy couples or one single person doing something for an unseen other : ironing his shirts , organising their mortgage , driving his Audi to visit her . |
| 22 | But if you 're doing something for 7,000 , the costs will be more per person per day . |
| 23 | So when some City and other British institutions start doing something for their employees and offering them something to alleviate their fears , the others are likely to match it . |
| 24 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 25 | As one church planter has said : ‘ When Jesus comes back , I want to be doing something for God , even if it 's only making mistakes . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | For the first time in her life she was doing something for herself ; doing it without help from anyone , and what was more , she was getting it right . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Other Greeks do not want to work in them ; they prefer the little shop , the handyman 's job , doing something for cousin Yannis . |
| 30 | 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 . |