Example sentences of "do [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
2 | sort of well a couple of nights deejaying will do me for a start really . |
3 | That 'll do him for the . |
4 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
5 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
6 | We have n't done it for a while . |
7 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
8 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
9 | 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 . " |
10 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
11 | She done it for the burial club money . |
12 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
15 | So , have you done it for the deadline ? |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
18 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
19 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
20 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
23 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
24 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
25 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
26 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
27 | ‘ I 'll do 'em for a penny , if yer like , I got lots of spit . ’ |
28 | I think the only other way of doing it is n't it is to say we wo n't do it for every course initially . |
29 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
30 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |