Example sentences of "have done [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Organisers of the Women 's Festival are looking for the woman who has done most for the welfare , health or quality of life of women in the town in the last year . |
2 | He did well for the likes of Cammell Laird and other plant closures , and has done well for the people at Rock Ferry . ’ |
3 | The Anglo-American lati relationship has done more for the defence and future of freedom than any other alliance in the world . |
4 | He walked barefoot to three shrines , and he returned shriven , and has done more for the church than any King of Alba before him . |
5 | No mother could ever have done more for the girl . |
6 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
7 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
8 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
9 | Green continues : ‘ Strangers have done more for the beauty of Grasmere by their forbearance in felling native trees than injury by the introduction of exotics . ’ |