Example sentences of "do [adj] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Single European Act , fully in force from 1992 , will be a bonus for business but will do little for the rest of us . |
| 2 | And so I said , Yes , I would do that for the year and then I 'd get back into teaching . |
| 3 | I wrote it down but I c I did only do that for the Christmas Fair . |
| 4 | This behaviour undoubtedly enhances the survival of the transposon , but — as Crick , with Leslie Orgel , Ford Doolittle and Carmen Sapienza argued , it does n't necessarily do much for the bacterium in which the transposon is a passenger . |
| 5 | The resonance of this fine building did not do much for the choir 's inaccurate diction , but made amends by enriching the gracious stone quality of the singing in Haydn 's Little Organ Mass and Faure 's Requiem . |
| 6 | The photograph did n't do much for the man . |
| 7 | Would n't do much for the value of the house , either . ’ |
| 8 | It would n't be fair for such a player — who could do much for the balance of the side as a genuine all-rounder — to be held back just because there was an ageing geriatric hanging around , trying to prolong his playing days . |
| 9 | It was a plain , basic , rock-bottom hatchback , but it would do fine for the distance and had the extra advantage of childproof locks on the rear doors . |