Example sentences of "do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the liberated world of radical chic , we may be intended to think , favours could be done for the right person . |
| 2 | While preparing an early draft of the present chapter , the writer heard Bishop Cathal Daly of Down and Connor , a leading moderate among the bishops , respected by all except PIRA , repeat the adage that the Irish constitution was secular , implying that there really was little to be done for the moment . |
| 3 | ‘ Let them put it on you and you are done for at last — food for the cannons , and the swamp-fever , and the hulks . |
| 4 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 5 | Side leg exercises can be done to work the outer thigh area , and a wide variety of scissor-type exercises can be done for the hips and lower stomach areas , ( More advanced stomach exercises can be carried out using weights if desired . ) |
| 6 | And then the punch line : ‘ This is n't done for something , it is done just so . ’ |
| 7 | They ought to have pocketed three points in the first half-hour but Tony Adams , a more threatening centre-forward on his forays than the current Alan Smith , missed the target with two headers and David Rocastle let Dave Beasant save a penalty , much as the stretch-version keeper had done for Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup final . |
| 8 | The justification seems to have got lost along the way , but the attitude has prevailed until recently — you could argue about precise dates , but Philip Larkin plumped for 1963 — and it 's not done for yet . |
| 9 | ‘ If we change the name , we show disrespect for all of the good things the party has done for Poland . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 12 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 13 | It is a dismal chronicle , alternating Ackerley 's vision of the ‘ ideal friend ’ with its glum reality ( 'It was all done for money . |
| 14 | Again no reference will be made to party authorities in the guberniia capital , since this has already been done for Smolensk . |
| 15 | He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity . |
| 16 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 17 | Muggins got the colour separations done for that at art school . |
| 18 | It was all down to them thinking , oh , Glen 's at art school , perhaps he can get it done for us . |
| 19 | His bedroom was the Sleeping Beauty scene he 'd done for Biba 's children 's department and the kitchen area was full of artificial trees — which his party guests used to piss against . |
| 20 | New physics and astronomy have done for all that . |
| 21 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
| 22 | In this way , because the despot has taken onto himself the attributes of the community , work — which was in fact done for him — appeared as work by him , and he appeared as the creator of wealth for the community . |
| 23 | Throughout Marx 's work he stresses , as he had done for labour , the fantastic nature of the capitalist concept of property , the fantastic notion that there is something of our personality in the things or places we own . |
| 24 | ‘ Japan is our biggest export market and we have seen what protectionism has done for the US automotive industry . ’ |
| 25 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 26 | Both times were on the Great North Road and no one was ever done for it . |
| 27 | ‘ I certainly do , ’ Frau Nordern answered , as if the room had been done for her . |
| 28 | They consulted a doctor who told them that there was very little that could be done for a rheumatic attack . |
| 29 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 30 | But the afternoon was done for . |