Example sentences of "doing [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Punch doing penance for his error of 35 years ago , ’ — presumably around 1884 he had said something silly about women in Parliament — ‘ and begs to offer his respectful congratulations to Lady Astor ’ . |
| 2 | The question is can a small shareholder do anything for Rushdie , am I doing damage for Pearson ? |
| 3 | The third term reforms to local government , the ‘ inner-city ’ policies , were much less about doing good for the poor and arresting decline and decay than about undermining Labour 's power bases . |
| 4 | Houseplants are good for you , according to Californian a laboratory that has been doing research for NASA into the use of plants in space . |
| 5 | nine per cent of students were continuing their studies , mainly doing research for a PhD qualification ; |
| 6 | Observations No 2 does give some answers ( as to which college library facilities are open to teachers doing research for example ) . |
| 7 | Doing research for a further qualification . |
| 8 | Doing research for a further qualification . |
| 9 | I mean , doing shorthand for four hours a day , it 's too much ! |
| 10 | The firm says it is doing work for IBM in other areas but declined to be more specific , although that suggests that IBM may have taken on board the message that it needs outsiders to run some of its key business units . |
| 11 | In in the any other business I 'm gon na raise the question of us doing work for Irish Railways . |
| 12 | Those parties for whom work is to be done or who themselves are doing work for engineers must be aware of the inherent uncertainties involved in the project and negotiate a sensible and commercially prudent apportionment of liability . |
| 13 | The erm , any other areas that I 've drew particular attention as a , as a , key issue is on the matter of er legality and doing work for other bodies , which has been an issue here which er , as you may recall we mentioned that in the last two or three years . |
| 14 | We have done some work with your offices on that , and whilst on most of your activities are n't happy with er the scale of such that it does cause me a problem , there is one particular area that we are in discussion with the Chief Executive , and your offices relating to doing work for other bodies to and the contract vehicle hire service , and er , that 's something which we will and no doubt will be brought us in the very near future . |
| 15 | Erm , may I take the opportunity to say that cross border is a bit of a misnomer , erm , it 's , the correct term is really doing work for other bodies . |
| 16 | It 's absolutely clear that the public body should be doing work for private sector organisations , and er , to my knowledge , Lincolnshire County Council have not been to that particular erm , definition , although other authorities do and I have had to stop other authorities undertaking contracts where they are er private sector organisations . |
| 17 | It was very satisfactory and the two girls went to Helen 's flat to celebrate with a drink and discuss the possibility of doing work for the pet shop in Seabourne . |
| 18 | It was forced to land on the Sedco 700 drilling rig , which is doing work for Shell in the East Shetland Basin . |
| 19 | ‘ About 15 years ago , I was in Africa doing work for the oil refineries . |
| 20 | Those people who have the record sheets from last week , ten , ten people that are doing work for the British National Corpus . |
| 21 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 22 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 23 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 24 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 25 | By early next week each of the 400 members of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers , the self-regulatory organisation for com modities , should have received the latest proposal from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission for ending the wrangle over London firms doing business for American clients . |
| 26 | Page 20 Dealer proposals : Members of the Association of Futures , Brokers and Dealers will soon receive the latest proposal from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on London firms doing business for American clients . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone had said ‘ if you do n't make it with your second movie , you 're in the slot of never land forever , ’ so I stayed off doing films for a while , ’ he says . |
| 28 | A classic case of a change of publisher doing wonders for the author . |
| 29 | The Reagan Era , I think , is doing wonders for Tod 's morale . |
| 30 | He was quite happy for Willi to sit through some of Therese 's practice sessions , for Willi 's overwhelming admiration for Therese 's voice — and Willi , in spite of his romantic overview , did understand about voice — was doing wonders for Therese 's confidence . |