Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly I was uneasy about this , worrying over what I should do for my friends when I got home . |
| 2 | If there is something I might do for you in return ? ’ |
| 3 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 4 | I 'll do for that bastard one day . |
| 5 | I 'll do for you . |
| 6 | I will , I 'll do for you one of these days . |
| 7 | What I 'll do for you deliberately er if the situation changes between now and a fortnight 's time after you 've sp spoken to your accountant , I 'll probably look at twenty , thirty and forty just to give you an illustration of what the expectations er are by , by putting a sum in there . |
| 8 | Things I 'll do for people ! |
| 9 | You might be surprised to find that it only means an increase in activity of fifteen percent of what you 're currently doing , to achieve something that 's in year three , that you 've got as year three , and you might think , ooh , that 's what I 'll do for year two . |
| 10 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 11 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 12 | There are lots of things I could do for you , ma'am . |
| 13 | ‘ It was the least I could do for them . ’ |
| 14 | Ex-presidential candidate Ross Perot told The Wall Street Journal he did n't mean he would take John Akers ' job when he told TV host Larry King that ‘ If there 's something I could do for IBM , well , I owe them that forever . ’ |
| 15 | So now I needed a job that I could do for approximately four months — something well-paid , light , congenial , preferably among colleagues with a physical inability to drop their eyes below shoulder level . |
| 16 | ‘ The things I could do for him , ’ she sighed . |
| 17 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 18 | I did n't recognise him , nor did there seem to be anything I could do for him . |
| 19 | Oh I know what I could do for that . |
| 20 | I know you 're a good woman , so do n't be afraid , and I will do for you , and I will do all for you that you ask . |
| 21 | I 've come on your wild-goose chase and that 's all I can do for you . ’ |
| 22 | What do you think I can do for you ? ’ |
| 23 | Nevertheless if there is anything I can do for you in the way of friendship , now or in the future , I hope you will not hesitate to call upon me . |
| 24 | He seemed to be saying , ‘ Listen Geoff , there are some things I can do for you and there are some things I ca n't . |
| 25 | If there is anything I can do for you … ’ |
| 26 | There 's nothing more I can do for you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Is there anything I can do for you , my boy ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Is there anything more I can do for you today ? ’ he said presently . |
| 29 | In my capacity as my own analyst I feel that the least I can do for my patient , and my readers , is precisely to ‘ let the case material speak for itself ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Ask not , ’ Carnelian taunted , ‘ what you can do for me , but what I can do for you . ’ |