Example sentences of "[pron] do [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I do n't know I , you see I left I had to come here so I left before Bob Monkhouse and everything , I just , I , all I did was go for couple of free drinks and plate of free food , which , I do n't think I got . |
| 2 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 3 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 5 | Here when a worker suffers mental of physical problems as a result off stress at work , the first thing he or she does is reach for his lawyer . |
| 6 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 7 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |