Example sentences of "[adv] for do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they also want to feel that they can ask for support or advice if they need it without feeling that they are being judged badly for doing so . |
| 2 | " That sort of thing 's all right for does , but not for us . " |
| 3 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 4 | As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so . |
| 5 | Right , thanks very much for doing the erm the questionnaire last week , okay ? |
| 6 | Alright , well thank you very much for doing that . |
| 7 | Man is an extension of the machine , useful only for doing things that the machine can not do . |
| 8 | Pathfinders in Space obeyed all the ground rules Sydney Newman laid down for doing drama on Television . |
| 9 | Yeah , you should of said yes , I said , I 'm all for doing a survey wi , I 'm , your being recorded . |
| 10 | Five pound for you and there 's five pound for Tom for coming in for doing this . |
| 11 | If they like sentence me straight away for doing something like I 'd think to myself is it worth it ? |
| 12 | Not for doing this though , ah ? |
| 13 | There were a number of names familiar to the trade in the lists , though not always for doing what they are most familiar for . |
| 14 | For let me tell you something : I 've respected myself far more for doing cleaning jobs well than for doing teaching jobs badly — and it is entirely appropriate that I should do so . |
| 15 | And Mum 's always telling me off for doing things wrong . |
| 16 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 17 | She told me off for doing the wrong colour there . |
| 18 | Well , I mean , really what he does is , apart from being a puppy and chewing things , you ca n't tell him off for doing it , because if you do then that 's when he shows , you know , his teeth come back and really he makes you frightened . |
| 19 | And also for doing the programme . |
| 20 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 21 | Now we ask er the club to supply er in between us signing them up for to do the cards to them to the consultant erm er getting there getting there to do the assignment could be five or six months . |
| 22 | She heard mention of six months ' imprisonment , and was terrified that she 'd be locked up for doing nothing . |
| 23 | and I 'm the mail-out coordinator we 've we 've so far mailed out all but one of the of the new magazines and er we did n't do the last one but we 're we 're scheduling up for doing this one . |
| 24 | I mean , we can , we can start by we I mean we can get people set up for doing things from the first of March ca n't we ? |
| 25 | You want a chair for over here for doing |
| 26 | you know , thinking they will , oh christ you know what am I sitting down here for doing that anyhow , I could of been done that at home before I did n't have |
| 27 | Was it common then for Did youse have a Did you your family have a Co book ? |
| 28 | But with the arrival of Ruddington , er the erm we have a wonderful opportunity there for doing something pretty pretty flashy . |
| 29 | and so , that 'll be great , thanks very much indeed for doing that and I 'll give you the gift vouchers next week |
| 30 | It must be demoralising for workers to be working alongside people who are being paid twice for doing the same job . |