Example sentences of "not do for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 2 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 3 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 4 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 5 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 6 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |