Example sentences of "done [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 2 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 3 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 4 | That is the analysis Johansson has done for Sweden , and Reddy has done for the state of Karnataka , India . |
| 5 | Most merciful father who has told us to love you with all our strength and glorify you in our bodies , we commend to you for your continual blessings the hospitals of our land and those who serve in them prosper all that is being done in the healing of the sick , the conquest of disease and the training of doctors and nurses that your will may be done for the relief of suffering and the making of lives whole through Jesus Christ our Lord amen |
| 6 | Mr Roberts was thanked for all he had done for the Society since its inception . |
| 7 | These suffer from the further problem of treating all deprivation as relative and scaling all measures to the same variance ( as is also done for the index of an ‘ area 's social conditions ’ used in the assessment of GRE ) . |
| 8 | Nobody got any work done for the rest of the morning . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The firm must indemnify every partner in respect of payments made and personal liabilities incurred by him ( a ) In the ordinary and proper conduct of the business of the firm ; or , ( b ) In or about anything necessarily done for the preservation of the business or property of the firm . |
| 10 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |
| 11 | Certain sections had been underlined in angry , wavy red lines , including one which read : ' … anything done for the purpose of , or liable to result in , the birth or hatching of a protected animal … |
| 12 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 13 | Contained in the DNA are ‘ library rules ’ dictating what has to be done for the instructions for a particular protein to be taken out and ‘ read ’ . |
| 14 | This was generally done for the EC as a whole , and few attempts were made to estimate the redistribution effects of removing these trade barriers . |
| 15 | Just what have South Africa done for the game during their isolation ? |
| 16 | Do you see what I mean , see most of this has been done for the convenience of the Quick Save Supermarkets on that er , I should say . |
| 17 | … This division of land into small pieces , and the scattering of the dwellings , was occasioned by , and done for the convenience of the business which the people were generally employ 'd in … |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it was not long before control was achieved , and the method used was that which had already and long ago done for the peoples of the old world . |
| 19 | Conscience has no application to anything that is done for the sake of the object ; … |
| 20 | The bearer of this document , Agatha de Courcy , must be given every aid and assistance for what she has done has been done for the sake of the Crown and the good of our realm . ’ |
| 21 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 22 | Corporal punishment amounts to anything done for the purposes of punishing the pupil , whether or not there ire other reasons for doing it , which would amount to a battery . |
| 23 | Surprisingly , for a man of such integrity , Mr Ronson appealed against the fine on the grounds that his wealth was only 10.7 million , an amount which the judge dismissed derisively as ‘ an artificial evaluation done for the purposes of sentencing ’ . |
| 24 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 25 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 26 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 27 | In 1694 Jean Gailhard wrote a pamphlet urging that the annual commemoration of 30 January and 29 May be stopped , arguing that the sermons delivered on that day helped perpetuate the country 's political divisions , though it is clear that what he objected to was the fact that these days helped promote a Tory vision of government in Church and State , since he himself did not believe anything done during the reigns of Charles I or Charles II was worth commemorating . |
| 28 | The UN is also being asked to garner Iraq 's oil revenues and use a portion to pay compensation for the damage done during the occupation of Kuwait and the war that followed . |
| 29 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |
| 30 | Preliminary work had also been done during the war on the ideas for the social security scheme , and plans had begun to be drafted for a national health service . |