Example sentences of "[noun sg] of doing [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right approach might possibly be along the lines of : ‘ How about the family closing ranks and getting together now that you need a little help ? ’ or ‘ Give us the pleasure of doing something for you for a change . ’ |
| 2 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 3 | Because what 's the point in doing no matter how good you think you 're doing , what 's the point of doing it for yourself in the living room , you want er everybody to listen to it . |
| 4 | With modern-day technology it is getting harder to achieve all the time , but there is one common denominator in the case of Eric Liddell and Allan Wells , and that is the fierce determination to win and the intense pride of doing it for Scotland . |
| 5 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 6 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 7 | When you have n't got no one , you have to , sort of like find a way of doing it for yourself and it 's much harder . |
| 8 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 9 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |