Example sentences of "do [indef pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A party that will attempt nothing for the unemployed at home will do nothing for the poor and starving abroad . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 6 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 7 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 8 | It 's done nothing for the box . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 12 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 13 | I 'll go and do something for an hour . |
| 14 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 15 | Presumably they 'd never done anyone for the job . |
| 16 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 19 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 20 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 21 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 22 | Would n't we do anything for a loved one to take us in his or her arms ? |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't do anything for a while , not even put on a pair of trainers . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year because nothing was built , ’ she says . |
| 25 | Louis would do anything for a pretty girl . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year to see what would come up , and we had constant , wonderful surprises . |
| 27 | Stella will do anything for a man . |
| 28 | JOHN Carroll will do anything for a quiet life , according to his young daughters . |
| 29 | First , and obviously , does it do anything for the sufferer 's disease ? |
| 30 | 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 . |