Example sentences of "do [indef pn] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 2 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 3 | It is true that right at the end , in October 1097 , when Anselm was on the point of leaving England , Eadmer reports him as saying to the Canterbury monks : ‘ I go willingly , trusting in God 's mercy that my journey will do something for the liberty of the Church in future times . ’ |
| 4 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 5 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 6 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
| 7 | She says she 'll do anything for the safety of the children . |
| 8 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 9 | FEARFUL that an eco-collection could be tarnished with a ‘ muesli bar ’ image , she purposefully chose ‘ to show an avant-garde range that did n't look too eco because the consumer is not ready to do something for the environment at the expense of looking good ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We all have to do something for the good of our country . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative Government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick , ’ said Coun Williams . |
| 12 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 15 | Saddam has never been known for doing something for the benefit of others . |
| 16 | Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people . |