Example sentences of "do [pron] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sort of well a couple of nights deejaying will do me for a start really . |
| 2 | I 'll go and do something for an hour . |
| 3 | We have n't done it for a while . |
| 4 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 5 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 6 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll do 'em for a penny , if yer like , I got lots of spit . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
| 10 | The car would do it for a minute or two . |
| 11 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |
| 12 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 13 | You can do it for a week . |
| 14 | There are women who will do it for a glass of champagne ! |
| 15 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't do anything for a while , not even put on a pair of trainers . |
| 17 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year because nothing was built , ’ she says . |
| 18 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year to see what would come up , and we had constant , wonderful surprises . |
| 19 | Stella will do anything for a man . |
| 20 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 21 | And I mean , if you set a list to do something for a day Yeah . |
| 22 | Section i concluded that the interest shown in trust wordings was a reflection of the demand that , although formless , a trust should be phrased in words which demonstrated an unequivocal intention on the part of the deceased to bind a trustee to do something for a beneficiary . |
| 23 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 24 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 25 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 26 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 27 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It is difficult to do anything for a child who is not attending school . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She 'll not likely be doing them for a while . ’ |
| 30 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |