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Example sentences for "something for"

  • I'm rather of the opinion that we're all here to do something for somebody.

  • Well, I've asked him to do something for me--the only thing I have ever asked him to do that wasn't straight.

  • I suppose there will be something for her; she's not thrown on her own resources?

  • The mother said she wanted to do something for me; and as I was leaving her she pulled this book out and made me take it.

  • She thinks she's in the world to do something for somebody; she's a very interesting, a very charming young woman.

  • But, as you do, and as you are wearing thin for want of sustenance, here is something for you!

  • Still holding her shoulders he said: "Do something for me to-night.

  • She longed to do something for him, by some act of glowing generosity to win him completely.

  • If only we could do something for Cocksmoor!

  • Seriously--I do mean that George should do something for Stoneborough; and, in a position of influence, I hope to be able to be useful to my poor old town.

  • Would not that be only making up something for oneself?

  • If you'll tell me truly, that at least, one way or the other, will do something for me.

  • Well, I think I can do something for you.

  • I wish I could do something for him--something worth while, I mean.

  • Tell me honest--couldn't you have got something to do long ago, if it hadn't been for trying to do something for me?

  • He said to himself, in their safe remoteness from each other, that he wished he could do something for Jackson.

  • I must do something for him, when he gets up to me, if he ever does.

  • Couldn't we do something for you, Bessie?

  • The same love of others, a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.

  • Here's something for you to report," said Zherkov.

  • But the small-pox and a wife may perhaps do something for him!

  • Her next thought was of her poor: "Now I shall be able to do something for them!

  • He would still be able to do something for her!

  • How soon do you think you can do something for me?

  • Dennie Saxon asked me once to do something for her in her loneliness.

  • Good enough Can't I do something for you?

  • Fenneben, if talking about Sunrise made her do that, maybe you might do something for her.

  • If talking about Sunrise made her cry like that, maybe you might do something for her," Dennie had said.

  • This kiss was given of her own free will, because she wanted to do something for him.

  • There isn't anything I can do for you now, but later when I come back to New York if you care to look me up I will try to do something for baby.

  • That'll be something for you to be independent about.

  • I must do something for him; yet have the melancholy conviction that nothing will do him any good.

  • The latter talks like a man of sense and a good relation, and would, I think, do something for E.

  • Her countenance is something for Sophia, whose company should be--as ladies are said to choose their liquor--little and good.

  • I want you to get me something for my scratches.

  • That some had been dead for ages I knew, not merely by their unutterable repose, but by something for which I have neither word nor symbol.

  • You are forever either doing something for them, or planning to do something for them.

  • The alarmists warn us that what we do for the children in the direction of costly and complicated toys may, even while helping them do something for themselves, mar their priceless simplicity.

  • Is it not true that we keep them continually in mind; that we seldom let them go quite out of sight; that we are always doing, or planning to do, something for them?

  • She wants to do something for herself, to get her independence.

  • She had an uneasy feeling that she "ought to do something for somebody.

  • She recalled now something that her husband had said about Johnston being a good man, who hadn't had his chance, and that he hoped to do something for him.

  • Don't you suppose we could do something for them?

  • I'm so glad for the chance to do something for Frank; he has been so kind," said Richard to himself.

  • Doc Linyard may want me to do something for him--write a letter or so, and that all takes time.

  • I always calculated to do something for myself, but that's all over now.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something 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:
    alternative but; another state; battle line; chop fine; contributory negligence; haue bene; honest face; imperative duty; off with; quite sure; something better; something beyond; something doing; something done; something else; something external; something extraordinary; something for; something foreign; something held; something like; something more; something quite; something real; something seemed; this hour