Example sentences of "what [noun] [noun prp] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Groups like yours are a bit outside my experience , ’ he confided , ‘ and I need to understand a bit about what Miss Morgan did for a living . |
| 2 | Most of what Aunt Lavvy does for me , she does from choice — over and above my allowance , that is , which is held in trust . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Remember what Alan Taylor did for us at West Ham in 1975 ? |
| 4 | Some writer should do for them what Bertrand Russell did for his grandfather and others in that exquisite volume Portraits from Memory . |
| 5 | O K so look let me just go through these notices er for today 's tutorial period , one or two changes erm again a thought for the week from the chaplain to begin with , during the approaching season of Lent , the best thing we can do is to centre our thoughts on what Jesus Christ did for us through his passion , death and resurrection . |
| 6 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 7 | Ripley , a winger with wonderful control for his size and strength , can nearly do for Blackburn what John Robertson did for Clough all those years ago . |
| 8 | The book does for harmonisation in Europe 1992 what John Wayne did for the ballet . |
| 9 | This potentially dry subject is illustrated with an extraordinary wealth of anecdotal detail , doing for cricket what Leo Rosten did for his native language in the fabled Joys of Yiddish . |