Example sentences of "do [pron] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can do nothing for these engines here , in this storm ! |
| 2 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 3 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
| 4 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 5 | But I 'll have done something for four years . |
| 6 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 7 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 8 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 9 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 10 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 11 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 12 | Well you see we 're a bit further from home now and if we can do it for five days , great , we have n't |
| 13 | I 'm only gon na do it for two days . |
| 14 | No we could , we could do it for all jobs cos |
| 15 | we could do it for all jobs , and see , that 's what I saying , I mean , we 've got |
| 16 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 17 | Yeah , we 'll do it for three months |
| 18 | We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you seriously asking me to do something for twenty dollars difference a night . |
| 20 | Yeah well , it was right it was cheaper to do it for twelve months anyway . |
| 21 | It takes a special person to handle complaints in any case but to do it for 22 years deserves a special mention , always maintaining a diplomatic and friendly attitude to each individual case . |
| 22 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |
| 23 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 24 | It helps our children to know that they 're doing something for those children . |
| 25 | Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things . |
| 26 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 27 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 28 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 29 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 30 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |