Example sentences of "do [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 2 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 3 | Both thorns are tolerant of pollution and are tough enough to grow in open , exposed seaside sites regularly raked over by salt-laden winds , although these of course will do nothing for the autumn display . |
| 4 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 5 | It is true that right at the end , in October 1097 , when Anselm was on the point of leaving England , Eadmer reports him as saying to the Canterbury monks : ‘ I go willingly , trusting in God 's mercy that my journey will do something for the liberty of the Church in future times . ’ |
| 6 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 7 | I said well in all fairness Paul , you ai n't actually bloody got , I said I do n't do it for the fun of it I said and I do n't like doing it but I see , he just sort of |
| 8 | ‘ No I do n't do it for the money really . |
| 9 | You certainly did n't do it for the money . |
| 10 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 11 | ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it . |
| 12 | First , and obviously , does it do anything for the sufferer 's disease ? |
| 13 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 14 | would do anything for the crack |
| 15 | ‘ You know that I 'll do anything for the children . |
| 16 | No , how about the men , do you do anything for the men ? |
| 17 | You got ta do anything for the kids parties this year or no ? |
| 18 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
| 19 | She says she 'll do anything for the safety of the children . |
| 20 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |