Example sentences of "do [noun pl] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DRA itself has done installers for the Transputer , 386/486 , MIPS , 68K , VAX and is looking at HP 's PA-RISC . |
| 2 | I 'm sure the win will do wonders for the team 's confidence , but let's see what happens for the next 5 games at least before we make rash predictions . |
| 3 | ‘ Freedy Starr ate my hamster ’ might do wonders for the circulation of the Sun but ‘ Caretaker ate school hamster ’ will be unlikely to do the same for your local weekly . |
| 4 | [ These would ] enable us to do things for the alliance which they ca n't do . |
| 5 | And it 's , I 'm going to do things for the house like I want to make erm Chris has put back the rail over my windowsill . |
| 6 | This is because they 're no good fur falconry proper — you can train them to fly free and return to you , but as they 're nocturnal it 's difficult to train them to hunt under ‘ controlled conditions ’ , particularly if you want to do displays for the public . |
| 7 | A classic case of a change of publisher doing wonders for the author . |
| 8 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 9 | By the way why have n't you been doing games for the past I do n't know six months ? |
| 10 | We , we kept on er making or doing repairs for the Ministry of Works for about ooh seven or eight years after the war finished , which kept a lot of men working in Galashiels when we , you know , when they were n't very sure if they could come back to their old jobs . |
| 11 | According to the company 's product manager , Howard Green , ‘ it 's a fair assumption to make that the company will be doing implementations for the Alpha , but we 're still negotiating terms . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They do things for the fell of it and not for some kind of career motive . |
| 13 | Learn to be things rather than do things for the sufferer . |
| 14 | Trite though it was , Jean-Jacques Annaud 's version of Umberto Eco 's bestselling novel did wonders for the selling of young Christian . |
| 15 | With a record Johns price of $17.7 million , Si also did wonders for the book value of other works by the artist , already gracing his walls . |
| 16 | I doubt I 'll every do games for the remainder of my time in this school . |
| 17 | He does things for the Man sometimes . |
| 18 | Now he does voice-overs for the company 's adverts . ’ |