Example sentences of "doing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shiksas were to promise an escape from Jewish America , as the promised land of Israel was eventually to be evoked as doing for Henry Zuckerman . |
| 2 | Always think what the chosen piece is doing for you — after all , the audition is about you , the naked ape , as well as that inner spark of inspiration you may have . |
| 3 | I have my pocket calculator and there are always things which need doing for which there is no need for my big computer . |
| 4 | Ginsberg 's Howl actually came out while Leonard was there , doing for the fifties and sixties generation what Eliot 's The Waste Land did for the twenties and thirties , and not least Ginsberg 's ‘ A Supermarket In California ’ , in which he questioned Lorca 's lonely habits ; as did Lawrence Ferlinghetti 's Picture Of The Gone World . |
| 5 | Which is what I shall be doing for the next three months . |
| 6 | It 's just that what we 're going to be doing for the next few weeks means you 're going to have to be very open with me , and Quincx to a degree . |
| 7 | And what was the Duke of Northumberland doing for two years investigating recruitment into the veterinary profession ? |
| 8 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 9 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 10 | But is there anything I can be doing for you , my heart ? |
| 11 | They may instead become increasingly determined to gain access to a school in a nearby LEA with a ‘ better class ’ of pupil , irrespective of how well that school is doing for its intake . |
| 12 | The plan is to do for the food industry what the Medical Research Council 's Cell tech offshoot is doing for genetic engineering in medicine . |
| 13 | And you ca n't say that a woman on her own , going out to work , with no kids , just doing for herself , is a housewife like say I 'm a housewife . |
| 14 | He needed a lot doing for him . |
| 15 | When she has finished what she is doing for the moment , she walks on briskly , her head making little bird-like movements , so that she can see everything that she passes . |
| 16 | He spent all his spare time at the Hampstead house now , not only from a liking for the work he was doing for Paul , and Paul himself , but for the sight , the nearness , of Dinah . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , she had invariably done her best for her child as , indeed , she was now doing for her grandchild . |
| 18 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 19 | For example , an elder may say or write ‘ I was upset when my wife died , and could n't get on with doing for myself . |
| 20 | The Minister droned on at length about all the things Britain was doing for animal welfare in Europe . |
| 21 | You wo n't have the coast path from Sennen harbour to Land 's End to yourself but it 's worth doing for the marvellous views of the impressive rock formations on the way . |
| 22 | Its best feature is Creag Meagaidh , 3700 feet , with a nature reserve on its lower slopes ; unfortunately , this giant is out of sight from the road but is seen well after a short climb on a path from Aberarder Farm , worth doing for a view of the craggy east face of the mountain . |
| 23 | ‘ Talking of freedom , ’ James said , ‘ Kate and I were wondering what you were doing for Christmas . ’ |
| 24 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 25 | What sort of work were these girls doing for us ? ’ |
| 26 | This potentially dry subject is illustrated with an extraordinary wealth of anecdotal detail , doing for cricket what Leo Rosten did for his native language in the fabled Joys of Yiddish . |
| 27 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 28 | In 1947 , in addition to the work he was doing for Lehmann , Minton illustrated two books for Paul Elek — Treasure Island and The Wanderer , an English translation of Alain-Fournier 's Le Grand Meaulnes . |
| 29 | ‘ That should change , but it is only what the Japanese have been successfully doing for years . ’ |
| 30 | He had no time for the over-solicitous kind of welfare service which consists largely of unnecessarily doing for the deaf those things which , given a lead , they can well do for themselves . |