Example sentences of "did [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did that for the nose |
| 2 | they did that for the school children |
| 3 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 4 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 5 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 6 | His ministry did little for the more difficult problem of the ‘ residuum ’ . |
| 7 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 8 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 9 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 10 | He , or the second horseman , did this for the whole of the field until it was marked out in equally spaced stetches . |
| 11 | She did much for the Red Cross , Girl Guides and the Royal Society for the Blind , and was a magistrate for many years . |
| 12 | What they had not done when the Celts were plundering Greece and Asia Minor , they did later for the benefit of the Romans . |
| 13 | The unit costs associated with the fire service rose substantially ( as did those for the police , which are harder to recover on a consistent basis over time within the GRE system , but responsible for far more expenditure ) . |
| 14 | For all the success of 20th century wonder drugs , 19th century improvements in sanitation did more for the health of the nation . |
| 15 | Readers are left to judge for themselves who did more for the Javanese people . |
| 16 | Mr Gregory said Mr Bell did more for the community than any amount of social workers , teachers or vicars . |