Example sentences of "do for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 2 | But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man . |
| 3 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 4 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 5 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
| 6 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 7 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 8 | Evaluating the options will involve you in doing some of the calculations that you would normally expect to find done for you in a respectable feasibility study . |
| 9 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 10 | They 'd always be wanting nylons , he thought , he 'd seen what they 'd do for them during the war . |
| 11 | What did the FA do for us with the Stuttgart incident last year ? |
| 12 | Now , if there 's nothing more I can do for you for a while , I 'll leave you to rest . ’ |
| 13 | That 'll do for you for the lodger . |
| 14 | That helps the audience feel involved but what does it do for you as a presenter ? |
| 15 | Jeff you 've a lot of experience of doing lecturing what what does it do for you as a presenter ? |
| 16 | It 'll do for you in the end . ’ |
| 17 | Nevertheless if there is anything I can do for you in the way of friendship , now or in the future , I hope you will not hesitate to call upon me . |
| 18 | It gives you more confidence , yeah , what 's it do for you within the company ? |
| 19 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 20 | The final exercises introduce you to MS-DOS , its basic commands and what it is supposed to do for you on a day to day basis . |
| 21 | The final exercises introduce you to MS-DOS , its basic commands and what it is supposed to do for you on a day to day basis . |
| 22 | The only things the Tories did for me as a businessman was to empty a lot of factory space which made it easy to buy up . |
| 23 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 24 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 25 | So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas . |
| 26 | 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 . |