Example sentences of "have do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 2 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 3 | They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’ |
| 4 | What more , for example , could Mr Marshall have done for Helmut ? |
| 5 | There 'll be no more lolling about on the Costa del Sol in future because too much Sol will have done for the Costa . |
| 6 | ‘ And what would you have done for money ? |
| 7 | ’ It might have revived her career , as it certainly would have done for the 42-year-old Doris Day . |
| 8 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
| 9 | She looked on it , without telling him , as a way of exercising her voice , practising her breathing as she would have done for the stage . |
| 10 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
| 11 | Lords temporal were not mustered as members of the county community : it would never have done for ‘ my lord ’ to be paraded on the village green by some Dogberry and Verges , even a Justice Shallow , made to line up with Mouldy , Shadow , Wart and the rest , to be handed over to a red-nosed , pot-bellied mercenary captain , to be abused and maybe put on a charge by his blustering subordinates , and finally |
| 12 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 13 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 14 | I suppose it was because we know he 's been highly-strung lately — his peculiar behaviour at the airport , for a start — that it took longer than it should have done for me to think over properly what had happened . |
| 15 | If he had n't met you , what would he have done for the fare ? " |
| 16 | It would n't have done for Laura to have suspected it , but I was pretty worried about her . |
| 17 | ‘ I told him that he is violent , has mistreated her very badly , have been trigger happy and whatever kindness he might have done for her he had cancelled by beatings and threats he had made on her life . |
| 18 | You must get out of this place and do the one good thinking you 'll ever have done for any woman . |
| 19 | ‘ And presumably , ’ said Julia , who had been reading the backlog of newspapers that had accumulated during her illness , ‘ the appalling winter will have done for this year 's as well . ’ |
| 20 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 21 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |
| 22 | It would n't have done for him to see me there . |
| 23 | There was nothing he could have asked of her that she would not have done for him . |
| 24 | Last year 's postal strike supplied a further motive , as I suspect it may have done for many other recent fax converts . |
| 25 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 26 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , Fabia , the least you could have done for me was to … ’ |
| 27 | Oh I tell you what he could have done for us have a look at that master that matchline thing . |
| 28 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 29 | Many will have learned that the kind of job that they will probably have to do for most of their working life will be semi-skilled , routine , undemanding , and tedious . |
| 30 | Oh well , I guess having one classy band make a return will have to do for now . |