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Example sentences for "anything for"

  • For some reason, Lydia declined to do anything for her on those conditions; she would help as a friend, but not otherwise.

  • No one entered his room to do anything for him, save at intervals of a fortnight, when Mrs. Bower sent up a charwoman; otherwise he had always waited upon himself.

  • Why, a man 'ud do anything for half a kind word from you.

  • Now I would do anything for you if you would only be punctual.

  • Linda; 'I don't know that you can do anything for him.

  • I never do anything for him, but now and then playing to him in the evening, and that not always, I am afraid, when I want to be about anything else.

  • I only wished to see, Miss, whether I could do anything for you?

  • I've never expected any one to do anything for me, so I'm not likely to be disappointed now.

  • A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

  • The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

  • Yes, if you will promise to keep it secret at least for the next six months--anything for breathing-time.

  • No, thank you kindly; I just looked in to ask if I could do anything for ye, in case--in case ye must go tomorrow.

  • He'll do anything for him; he has in fact just done a great deal.

  • My soul and body, he'll do anything for you!

  • He'll do anything for me; only, I see him so seldom that I can't counteract poor old Lily's influence.

  • You never do anything for anybody, except for what you get out of it for yourself.

  • I'll do anything for you, but I won't give up my baby.

  • You needn't think I'll do anything for you!

  • I once was found out in a bit of mischief in the palace, and should have been whipped for it and turned out of the town, but the duchess herself said that I was only a boy and forgave me, and I would do anything for her.

  • It was a good day indeed when madam and her daughter came here, they have made themselves so loved by the tenants that they would do anything for them.

  • Turenne is a great soldier; and more than that, from what I have heard he is loved by his men more than any other general, and they will do anything for him.

  • At Paris she neither did nor took anything for them, but left nature to itself.

  • They had been told that, as I was not in a situation to do anything for them, I could not, on their account, do anything for myself.

  • He could tell all about how he was kidnapped, but could not find anybody to do anything for him, so he had to content himself.

  • Can you think of anything for any of these?

  • Pleas to writ let me no if you can do anything for us.

  • He claps people on the back, shouts at them, will do anything for them, and makes a perpetual breeze.

  • The child had been ill all night, and not for love or money could he get any one to do anything for them, not even to go for the medicine.

  • They tell me that they were horrified when I arrived, as they thought that they could not make me comfortable, and that I had never been used to do anything for myself, and then we complimented each other all round.

  • He said he was willing to do anything for me if I would direct the way in which I wished him to proceed; he did not understand the English law, and I must submit to Somali methods.

  • It was a great trial, and Bombay of all the party was the only man who could be induced to go; but he, as will be seen in many subsequent parts of this book, was ever ready to do anything for anybody, and cheerfully started off with me.

  • It would make me powerful glad to do anything for a comrade or his sister.

  • My wife receives a clothes-basketful of letters every morning from the mothers of the Confederacy proffering time, money, and service wherever she can suggest anything for them to do.

  • I shall be mitey tickled to do anything for yeou or your brother.

  • And I came to ask if I could do anything for you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anything for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anything about; anything but; anything else; anything except; anything for; anything from; anything happened; anything happens; anything like; anything whatever; anything you; brisk oven; come doun; current issues; direct action; electricity through; give thee; great earthquake; independent treasury; more gently; never seemed; often somewhat; talk over; upward direction; working girls; young animal