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Example sentences of "do [pron] for [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	" I can do nothing for that boy . "
2	‘ I can do nothing for these engines here , in this storm !
3	‘ They surely wo n't do you for this ?
4	I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’
5	And I hope you can do something for this little lad here .
6	‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world .
7	I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up
8	He would n't have done it for most people .
9	Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure .
10	No we could , we could do it for all jobs cos
11	we could do it for all jobs , and see , that 's what I saying , I mean , we 've got
12	Sort of , you 've got your health knock out sixty seventy , right we can do it for another year .
13	We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence .
14	‘ I do n't do it for any reason of self . ’
15	We do n't do it for any other section of society , and these people are not poor .
16	But it was not vulgarity , just rudery — and he would do it for some very distinguished people we had on the set sometimes . ’
17	There are of course other reasons for each one , so it is impossible to say exactly how much you can do yourself for any of the conditions mentioned .
18	I 'm bilious and they do n't do anything for this
19	The ideal love of a man for a woman and of a woman for a man is for them to want to give something to each other , or to want to do something for each other .
20	The Secretary of State is anxious to concentrate on rebates to do something for those who will by hit be the property tax , but the Minister has scorned property taxes and is determined to weight the tax in favour of the better-off .
21	The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning .
22	Well and do you want me to do one for this year ?
23	Now we 're planning to do a , we do n't wan na do another budget , re-budget forecast until June July , we , cos it , we do n't need to do one for this bu any budget year starting July , we 're gon na work on the calendar year .
24	I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’
25	He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him .
26	Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with
27	Right so I do n't need to do anything for that ?
28	Which he may not be able to do anything for that week but it will ring a bell loud and clear the following weeks .
29	But , I thought that now that the M S has acquired that bus and it 's going to be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus .
30	well it is n't even a priority , it 's nothing , they wo n't get the money , th they wo n't pay for walk to go swimming but I thought that now that the has acquired that bus and it 's gon na be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus .