Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'll see you do n't suffer for this , Ellen . |
| 3 | Emerson rejects convention and in doing so stands for all the values that Forster believed to be most important — authenticity and truth . |
| 4 | The debate over the Aggravating Vehicle-Taking Bill is different , not only because the Bill presumes a defendant responsible for occurrences if he can not disprove mere presence , but also because of the reasons which the Minister of State did eventually offer for this legislative formulation . |
| 5 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 6 | This , Jaq did not care for one little bit . |
| 7 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 8 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 9 | Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet . |
| 10 | Maldon were met with stiffer resistance in the second half and did not score for 20 minutes , until scrum-half Willcocks dived over in the corner . |
| 11 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 12 | And he will answer , ‘ I tell you this : anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me. , Matthew 25 : 31 — 46 New English Bible |
| 13 | But Jesus said , ‘ anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 14 | Jesus Christ said : ‘ Anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 15 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 16 | Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable . |
| 17 | There , I did not eat for two weeks , and Bothwell 's children — there were two babies — were born dead . |
| 18 | Octreotide concentrations dueing CSOI did not change for two hours after meal consumption ( results not shown ) . |
| 19 | In the 1880s , the large herds of the kingdom of Karagwe in western Tanzania were severely depleted by rinderpest , and did not recover for several decades . |
| 20 | Crawford stormed out and did not return for two weeks , and then only to pick up his mail . |
| 21 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |
| 22 | The undeniable literary qualities of the novel did not compensate for these ideological shortcomings . |
| 23 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
| 24 | Earlier Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader , hoped it would be demonstrated that Sir Nicholas did not speak for other Tories ‘ because the gutter language he used is not fit for anyone standing for a democratic party ’ . |
| 25 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 26 | Sesostris did not speak for some time . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , we did not anticipate the importance of observer bias , and we did not arrange for third party blinded observation . |
| 28 | The question did not arise for those settling in their state 's colonies , who could continue to remain Englishmen or Frenchmen in New Zealand or Algeria , thinking of the old country as ‘ home ’ . |
| 29 | And we did not stop for four days , discussing every detail , going over every bit of ground . |
| 30 | More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders . |