Example sentences of "do [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 2 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 3 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 4 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 5 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 6 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 7 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 8 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 9 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 10 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 11 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 12 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 13 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 14 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 15 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 16 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 17 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 18 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 19 | I mean I ai n't doing it for a whole week . |
| 20 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 21 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |