Example sentences of "do it for [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 It 's very tragic but he would have done it for anybody .
2 He 'd have done it for anyone .
3 Some of but you ca n't do it for something like a Medieval 's day or Roman
4 You got ta do it for something .
5 I 'm gon na do it for everybody , not just the joint management .
6 it 's bad enough in your house , they have to physically go out and do it for somebody else .
7 I 'll do it for nothing — just my food and a bed in the attic looking out over the chimney-pots .
8 ‘ If he comes round here I 'll do it for nothing . ’
9 He 's very good and he 'll probably do it for nothing if he can get a couple of hours off . ’
10 Er champion of champions we 've , I bought some prizes for the champion of champions , and food er just to go with the trophies er Keith again was our judge and erm knowing that he does n't willingly accept money , he wants to come and do it for nothing erm how many proposed that we buy him something a bottle to take with him , so we bought him a bottle of wine to take with him and er that was the three pound .
11 ‘ I did n't exactly do it for nothing , ’ Nelson said .
12 If you were part of the trust meetings and saw the degree of work that he does do regularly on our behalf it is quite considerable he does n't do it for nothing !
13 So he said will you do it for nothing ?
14 This guy does n't do it for anything but fun .
15 ‘ I would n't do it for anybody else on the staff , but you 're the best worker we 've had here . ’
16 And he added : ‘ It is important to me that the boys know I offered to do it for nothing . ’
17 It 's a long trip , and I would n't want to do it for nothing . ’
18 You know , they 're not going to do it for nothing .
19 Just that they , they 're not willing to do it for nothing , and it 's going to cost you twenty pounds a time on top of the P A hire .
20 ‘ If I do it for you , I 've got to do it for everyone
21 You an me , the artists , we 're doing it for no-one 's eyes but our own , are n't we ? but while fundamental , as far as the book 's concerned , this is a minor point .
22 Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway .
23 this time next year , yes I think we 'll be doing it for everything .
24 Luigi did not charge very much for this operation , and if the patient was poor he did it for nothing .
25 They were the people who did it for nothing . ’
26 I mean however much you like doing something you would n't do it if you did it for nothing .
27 If you do it for one you do it for everybody .
28 If he 'd provide the ladders , the baskets , and do it for nothing , the reverend fathers would give their consent .
29 If you do it for one you do it for everybody .
30 Building societies are a bit naughty in that they 're regularly advertising rates at over fifty thousand pounds , the Loughborough do it for one , in er my local paper .
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