Example sentences of "do [pron] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we did n't bother , we could n't do anything much for these rabbits and try and kill them you know , as much as we could aye . |
| 2 | He used to call on two of two boys , but there was a boy named , I remember him very well , and I used to do it regularly for this sixpence . |
| 3 | ‘ Lots of jazz players have been doing it now for six or seven years and are on a level with the Americans . |
| 4 | I can imagine them doing it now for all it 's worth . |
| 5 | Sugar and Spite was the first attempt at doing anything specifically for out-loud performance . |
| 6 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 7 | What we have to do is start looking at all the things that make that possible and try and do something else for all the things that do n't help you fill it . |
| 8 | Now I promise you if you do as we tell you and your diary looks like , my white board if you like , every week for the next sort of twenty eight days , you will be successful , because if you do something consistently for twenty eight days , apparently it becomes a habit . |
| 9 | Well on mine she did it once , it did n't work so she did it again for free and then it all started breaking off . |
| 10 | I did it partly for aesthetic reasons ; partly to economize on the number of genes necessary ( if genes did n't exert mirror-image effects on the two sides of the tree , we 'd need separate genes for the left and the right sides ) ; and partly because I was hoping to evolve animal-like shapes , and most animal bodies are pretty symmetrical . |
| 11 | do it purely for that reason do you ? |