Example sentences of "do [det] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you could do that for the next meeting I 'd be grateful . |
| 2 | But if you like , governments could do this for the non-teaching staff and not do that for the teaching staff . |
| 3 | She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss . |
| 4 | Presumably this will make it easier for voters in the Tory heartlands to shop abroad and avoid duty , though it may not do much for the Conservative vote in Kent . |
| 5 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 6 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 7 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 8 | We are doing this for the right reasons . ’ |
| 9 | Going public is an ideal way of doing this for the right company , but , unlike in the mid-1980s , it will not be an option for many smaller companies with most flotations now capitalised at over £25m . |
| 10 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 11 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 12 | She did much for the Red Cross , Girl Guides and the Royal Society for the Blind , and was a magistrate for many years . |
| 13 | Readers are left to judge for themselves who did more for the Javanese people . |
| 14 | And to hide the microphone under a table or behind a curtain , while guaranteeing the naturalness of the content , does little for the acoustic quality — and of course raises an issue that President Nixon memorably pioneered . |