Example sentences of "not do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These groups , like all élites , have no previous perception of themselves as belonging to the troublesome classes , and it does not do for the police to remind them that the application of control can be redirected depending on who is defining the ‘ illegalities ’ . |
| 2 | It would not do for it to take place in Moran 's house and Moran would not go to a hotel . |
| 3 | In effect , these and other private boutiques are doing the caring and monitoring that investment institutions can not do for themselves : the boutiques ' finance comes from pension funds , insurers and big companies . |
| 4 | And he will answer , ‘ I tell you this : anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me. , Matthew 25 : 31 — 46 New English Bible |
| 5 | And he will answer , ‘ I tell you this : anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me. , Matthew 25 : 31 — 46 New English Bible |
| 6 | But Jesus said , ‘ anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 7 | But Jesus said , ‘ anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 8 | Jesus Christ said : ‘ Anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 9 | Jesus Christ said : ‘ Anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 10 | Bearing in mind what the patient can and can not do for himself , the nursing interventions to achieve the set goals can then be selected according to local circumstances and available resources . |
| 11 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 12 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 13 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 14 | No matter how legitimate it might be to define the scope of linguistics in this way ( and this is currently a controversial matter ) , it will not do for language pedagogy . |
| 15 | That will not do for Windows NT . |
| 16 | But although this might be tenable for booming Babergh , it will not do for depressed Coventry where many masters were quite poor , and John Langwood ( craft unstated ) was not the only employer — in this case of an apprentice — who owned no goods worth assessing . |
| 17 | It would not do for always , but it would do for now . |
| 18 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 19 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] To what numberless mean things did not this unmanly passion subject me ? [ to PAMELA ] My sister Davers would have had you live with her , but she would not do for you what I am resolved to do if you continue faithful and obliging . |
| 20 | After all , it would not do for me , a T'ang , to breach the Edict , would it ? ’ |
| 21 | I am even going to give you some , which I should not do for someone who knows nothing about wine . ’ |
| 22 | In a sermon of August 1710 , Dr South accused the separatists and Dissenters of being " the Pope 's journeymen " who " carry on his work " and " do that for him which he can not do for himself … |
| 23 | ‘ There is nothing I would not do for you , ’ he replied , and all at once frustrated beyond enduring , ‘ For pity 's sake , woman , ’ he implored , and , reminding her of a comment she had made to him that delightful mealtime in Bečov , ‘ give me a straight answer to a straight question — are you going to marry me ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 26 | Anyway , it was not done for profit . |
| 27 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 28 | I remember him saying that the person in the anecdote had to remain anonymous since it was still not done for a woman to confess she enjoyed promiscuous , recreational sex . |
| 29 | Listing the offices held by the pair was not done for information purposes — every five-year-old knew who they were — but to assert their authority . |
| 30 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |