Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | she had our er Raymond doing her hair for her . |
| 32 | Another point worth remembering is that it is important to make sure that your parent 's larder is well stocked with the right kind of non-perishable foods to deal with any emergency such as extreme weather conditions , or times when you may be unable to visit her because of illness or holidays , unless a neighbour is doing her shopping for her . |
| 33 | Yeah I was doing their printing for them and er I 've also taken a few shots for the Chronicle . |
| 34 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 35 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |
| 36 | You need to know the desires , interests and capacities of your subordinates and above all to avoid doing their thinking for them . |
| 37 | we just go o go on erm doing their job for them , and , and paying out of our own pockets . |
| 38 | Friendship is seen as a spiritual comfort , steadying her spirit for its last journey . |
| 39 | This popular attachment to church festivities persisted well into Elizabeth 's reign , the laity demonstrating their affection for them by vociferously opposing the efforts of godly ministers or town corporations to suppress them . |
| 40 | Her brother , closing her suitcase for her , regarded her with exasperation . |
| 41 | At its worst extreme , and particularly where the panel is a voluntary committee , all of whom are giving their time for nothing , the selection may well be made without all the panel having interviewed the candidate . |
| 42 | for , when they were having their sale for their sports and swimming pool or something |
| 43 | She put her name forward to the chairman of the local party only to find later that he had approached her father to get his consent then double-checked by asking her husband for his permission too . |
| 44 | Somebody must be doing his mending for him , as she was doing Willis 's , and the idea gave her a stab of pain which she could n't relate to her other feelings . |
| 45 | He 's all about excitement , entertainment , doing his bit for his country , and doing it with style — a curious travesty of the active citizen for the 1990s . |
| 46 | I 'm having me watch for me birthday anyway so |
| 47 | Offering you the Shell Account Card is a away for us to demonstrate our appreciation of your custom , and our resolve to continue doing our utmost for you in the future . |
| 48 | Alfie was fond of doing our job for us . |
| 49 | In our society others are doing our thinking for us , a concept Mill and Rousseau wanted to prevent . |
| 50 | Are the finance people running your life for you ? |
| 51 | come round and cut the grass at the back I said are you cutting our grass for us ! |
| 52 | If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it . |
| 53 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 54 | But she could sense when he was getting her ready for a match and stood like a statue , even dropping her head for him to clip her mane . |
| 55 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 56 | The soulless , impersonal State had reared him since then , putting him through higher education and choosing his career for him . |
| 57 | I 'm taking your word for it . |
| 58 | ‘ By the way , what did Nelson get in return for taking your shift for you ? ’ |
| 59 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 60 | He nodded towards the couple who were solicitously cooking his food for him , mouthful by mouthful . |