Example sentences of "do something for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
| 2 | And I hope you can do something for this little lad here . |
| 3 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 4 | But I 'll have done something for four years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I like to make people laugh and always wanted to be able to do something for elderly and lonely people . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you seriously asking me to do something for twenty dollars difference a night . |
| 11 | But if you 're doing something for 7,000 , the costs will be more per person per day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It helps our children to know that they 're doing something for those children . |