Example sentences of "do [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 2 | sort of well a couple of nights deejaying will do me for a start really . |
| 3 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 4 | Both thorns are tolerant of pollution and are tough enough to grow in open , exposed seaside sites regularly raked over by salt-laden winds , although these of course will do nothing for the autumn display . |
| 5 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 6 | It 's done nothing for the box . |
| 7 | It is true that right at the end , in October 1097 , when Anselm was on the point of leaving England , Eadmer reports him as saying to the Canterbury monks : ‘ I go willingly , trusting in God 's mercy that my journey will do something for the liberty of the Church in future times . ’ |
| 8 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 9 | I 'll go and do something for an hour . |
| 10 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 11 | We have n't done it for a while . |
| 12 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 13 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 15 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 16 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 17 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 18 | So , have you done it for the deadline ? |
| 19 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
| 20 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 21 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 22 | She done it for the burial club money . |
| 23 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 24 | Presumably they 'd never done anyone for the job . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll do 'em for a penny , if yer like , I got lots of spit . ’ |
| 26 | I think the only other way of doing it is n't it is to say we wo n't do it for every course initially . |
| 27 | And you can do it for a fraction of the price and without finding yourself on first-name-terms with your local AA recovery team . |
| 28 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
| 29 | The car would do it for a minute or two . |
| 30 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |