Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writer should do for them what Bertrand Russell did for his grandfather and others in that exquisite volume Portraits from Memory . |
| 2 | Do you want to comment on what five thousand less than your figure would do for affordable housing ? |
| 3 | While many users have developed joyous fantasies about what a 256 megabit DRAM will do for them , others are somewhat concerned about whether an alliance between these three giants will adversely affect the performance of the DRAM market . |
| 4 | And then , finally , look at what Equity can do for the successful plaintiff — the ‘ remedy ’ , the ‘ relief ’ which it can give him . |
| 5 | Bank Assistants , ask not what the IBOA can do for you but what can you do for the IBOA to get justice for your claim . |
| 6 | Chop up your milk-fed lamb — a kilo should do for four people — into whatever size you fancy . |
| 7 | I want to know what unit linking will do for me . |
| 8 | Amdahl hopes its part of the exercise will do for the top-end of the Unix market what Novell Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc are doing for low-end and desktop Unix . |
| 9 | ‘ Just bringing my psalter will do for now , ’ Isabel murmured when she could speak again , revelling in the teasing intimacy of lovers that was still so new to her . |
| 10 | Bob Hoover sponsored by Victor Aviation , flew the Shrike Commander in his famed ‘ energy management series ’ of engine-out manoeuvres ; Pepsi sponsored Joann Osterud in her ultimate 300 Biplane as well as Susan Asbury-Oliver in the Pepsi Skywriter ; First Interstate Bank brought Wayne Handley and his Raven to Reno ; Sean Tucker 's amazing aerobatics were sponsored by Randolph Sunglasses and Dreyer 's Ice Cream ; the Acme Duck and Airshow returned to Reno for a repeat of their funny comedy airshow act ; Scott Hammack 's Smoke n Thunder jet dragster was on hand to show what an afterburning J-34 jet engine can do for miles per hour versus miles per gallon ; seven-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion Leo Loudenslager flew the Bud Light 200 in a routine that demonstrated why he is such a success in competition aerobatics ; and Team America added precision three ship aerobatics to the programme . |
| 11 | Moreover , poetry can do for us what religion and philosophy no longer can , that is tell us ‘ what to feel ’ and ‘ what to do ’ ; poetry , Science and Poetry concludes ( p. 82 ) , is ‘ capable of saving us . ’ |
| 12 | Law binds not because it says it does ( although it does say just that ) but because there are good reasons for accepting its claim to mandatoriness and these good reasons have to do with what law can do for us in certain situations of social opportunity , difficulty and peril . |
| 13 | What Aromatherapy Can Do For You |
| 14 | Amazing what a positive attitude can do for you ! |
| 15 | ‘ It would be nice to start with a win , but a draw will do for me ’ — ANDY ROXBURGH |
| 16 | We 'll just have to see what a course of ECT will do for him . ’ |
| 17 | You had better get Fisher to plain [ sic ] a very thin teak board the size of the large books for protection , and a common book cover from the work room will do for the protection of the other side , spreading the four parts of the Synopsis over and sealing the whole in brown paper . |
| 18 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 19 | ‘ Just shows what a good caddie can do for you , ’ he said , with a generous smile at Patrick . |
| 20 | It is important that the counsellor , observing the problems and deprivations within the group , does not fall into the trap of being more concerned with what he or she can do for the group than what the group can do for itself . |
| 21 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
| 22 | So you 've got ta sell benefits you 've got ta know what the product can do for them , right you 've got to find out what they want from it I mean it might be security that 's the big problem |
| 23 | What a true friend should do for you . |
| 24 | It was amazing , she thought when he had left the room , what food , wine and a sensational smile could do for a girl . |
| 25 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's nothing that one dose will do for you that two wo n't do better ! ’ |
| 27 | Throughout that year the committee met as a whole only every two or three months , and it seems that much of the running was made by the deputy head , who described how he visited every department to explain the new arrangements and what the library could do for them . |
| 28 | I did not hear the sailor 's words , but Lachlan forbade me to waken Hector , he said the morning would do for the news . |
| 29 | Honours even might have satisfied the neutrals , but after last Monday 's Merseyside derby defeat , nothing less than victory would do for Souness and in the 84th minute it came . |
| 30 | ‘ Just the brandy and beef will do for now . |