Example sentences of "do [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is the first year I 've put Lynda into the Giants , but her recent exposure has been terrific and I 'm sure will do wonders for this twins tale spotted with sex and violence with Auschwitz roots . |
| 32 | Parent Network believes that parenting can be learned , and that improved communication can do wonders for family harmony . |
| 33 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 34 | A nice dry day can do wonders for ticket sales . |
| 35 | It may do wonders for your temperament . ’ |
| 36 | A warm shower might do wonders for your nerves . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ I believe to have such a major international festival of song on our doorsteps would do wonders for our city and in particular for our tourist industry . ’ |
| 38 | I 'm sure the win will do wonders for the team 's confidence , but let's see what happens for the next 5 games at least before we make rash predictions . |
| 39 | But player manager Glenn Hoddle , who was outstanding in midfield said : ‘ This will do wonders for our self belief . |
| 40 | The people I could have done things for … . |
| 41 | People do n't realise that you can do things for yourself . |
| 42 | ‘ I ca n't do anything if the team does n't do things for me . ’ |
| 43 | And because I knew a lot of people , you 'd do things for different motives . |
| 44 | He lay back limp as a rag and let her do it , the way he always let people do things for him , not lifting a finger . |
| 45 | Erm sixty six percent of people believe that the people you vote for say they 'll do things for you but once they 're in they forget what they 've said . |
| 46 | He does n't do things for stupid personal reasons . |
| 47 | You can do things for yourself in the way of diet , exercise , good lifestyle , not smoking and so on but , a lot of women will need hormone replacement therapy just to replace the hormones that dear old mother nature stop supplying to us at the menopause . |
| 48 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 49 | If I do n't do things for you , you 're clearly not going to do anything for yourself . ’ |
| 50 | If we can do things for the kids then that 's fine , a bonus , but otherwise we are trying to help the system , to respond to what it wants of us . |
| 51 | She said : ‘ I have been used for too long , I must do things for myself now . |
| 52 | Was n't it Mr. Justice Cocklecarrot ( or was it Mr. Justice Wool ? ) in Misleading Cases in the Common Law who observed sternly to that persistent litigant , Mr. Haddock , ‘ People must not do things for fun . |
| 53 | I let myself think I might adopt him — oh , not altogether , but just so that he could come and stay with me sometimes and I could do things for him . |
| 54 | And that 's what I want you to feel like Mandy I do n't want you to feel that you 've got ta do things for me . |
| 55 | As I 've done Littlewoods for about eighteen years . |
| 56 | When a human being does X in order to do Y , the achieving of Y is his reason for doing X. When an animal does X in order to do Y , he does not do X for a reason , even though he is aiming at a goal in doing so . |
| 57 | ‘ That 's not much , ’ said Dolly , ‘ you can do mine for tuppence , we 'll ask 'im to pay as I 'm a bit 'ard-up meself . ’ |
| 58 | I know a lot of us have done terms for a long term , but to be together closely and observe each other reacting and doing things it gives a better idea of how people think , being in this together . |
| 59 | So he 'll probably do locums for a while . ’ |
| 60 | Actors of Dane 's calibre did n't often do favours for unknown playwrights , no matter how old and valued their friendship . |