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Example sentences of "[to-vb] anything for " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He says the nineteen sixty-eight caravan act does n't include new-age travellers who are not traditional gypsies so we do n't have to provide anything for them by law .
2	René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’
3	When you 're observing real animals living real lives , it 's often very hard to know anything for certain .
4	Ludlum 's so wealthy he has n't had to write anything for three years ! ’
5	‘ If you want to write anything for anyone else again , ’ he said roughly , ‘ do it in your own time , not in mine . ’
6	Try to remember anything for which others have praised or criticized you .
7	Mungo had never seen him so cheerful , even though he had failed to buy anything for himself .
8	‘ I did n't expect to hear anything for at least a week , but the next day she rang with the words and melody all worked out — and she had sat a school exam the same day . ’
9	She has returned again , and feels lost , unable to do anything for me .
10	‘ I do n't very often ask you to do anything for me — and I did lend you my ear-rings when you went out with that Edward last week . ’
11	When did the unions last get off their arses to do anything for women ?
12	But the goal of worship is not to get God to do anything for us ( whether this is possible or not ) .
13	‘ I was never allowed to do anything for fear it would spoil my hands .
14	‘ It is difficult to do anything for a child who is not attending school . ’
15	I know that if I ask Tessa to do anything for me , she will — and the same is true in reverse .
16	Why would you want to do anything for me ? ’
17	The Aunts always used to say she was selfish because of this , but her argument was that as she never wanted anyone to do anything for her unless it gave them pleasure , she never did anything for anyone unless it gave her pleasure .
18	Although the courts have not expressly said so , it may be more difficult to do anything for the casus omissus .
19	I could never allow anybody to do anything for me , ca n't now .
20	If Cuba fell , other Latin American countries would reject us , claiming that for all our might , the Soviet Union had n't been able to do anything for Cuba except to make empty protests to the United Nations ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) .
21	Right so I do n't need to do anything for that ?
22	If I do n't do things for you , you 're clearly not going to do anything for yourself . ’
23	So you hired horsemen , God knows from where , though there are enough ex-soldiers around to do anything for silver . ’
24	But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there .
25	Not that I 've had much chance to do anything for him .
26	I suppose it 's as selfish to want to go on being ‘ In charge ’ as never to do anything for anybody , linda was thinking .
27	Unable to do anything for ourselves , and then God comes and rescues us in our hop , hopelessness , and helplessness .
28	He could get anybody to do anything for him , he was so sweet .
29	Which he may not be able to do anything for that week but it will ring a bell loud and clear the following weeks .
30	‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative Government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick , ’ said Coun Williams .