Example sentences of "[noun sg] you [modal v] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just in the work you can do for me . ’ |
| 2 | Thanks James you can potter away now , thank you actually there 's a job you could do for me James , if you like to , find all the things and put them over here with the labels stuck to them , can you do that for me ? |
| 3 | You know nothing of my problems ! — Wait , one commission you could do for me ! ’ |
| 4 | On the other hand , if you really feel indebted , Miss Fox , there is a small favour you could do for me in return . ’ |
| 5 | Facing up to your own problems , and trying to resolve them , may be the best thing you could do for your child . |
| 6 | ‘ I know you 're tight , Woody , ’ Finlayson said , ‘ but the only thing you could do for us now would be to shoot the old man . |
| 7 | The best thing you can do for your skin , throughout the year , is keep it moist with creams . |
| 8 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 9 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 10 | Another , another thing you can do for Easter , another thing is , er you can go back to the old tradition of the pay sex |