Example sentences of "[noun prp] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what Surrey done for English batting — 36.36% . ’ |
| 2 | That 's what Surrey done for English cricket . ’ |
| 3 | This is the thing Ken done for us . |
| 4 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 5 | Will Jeff Koons do for Sgarbi what he did for that other member of the Italian Parliament , the even nuder Cicciolina ? |
| 6 | Archbishop Fisher was very pleased at what Ramsey did for the conference . |
| 7 | Most of what Aunt Lavvy does for me , she does from choice — over and above my allowance , that is , which is held in trust . ’ |
| 8 | WHAT CAN CLARENCE DO FOR YOU |
| 9 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 10 | We have formed Scottish Trade International to help with our exporters , as Locate in Scotland does for inward investors . |
| 11 | Which Eggar did for as the pain increased , so did his anger . |
| 12 | What O'Neillism did for Paisleyism was to raise in a concrete way the possibility of change from being a Protestant society and culture ( constantly threatened by the old enemy within and without ) to being a secular modern society in which religious affiliation would be of little consequence . |
| 13 | ‘ And what does good-for-nothing Sunil do for a living ? ’ |
| 14 | Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer . |
| 15 | Almost certainly before Rachel an ancient goddess shed tears there bewailing her lover and , as Anat did for Ba'al , she ‘ continued sating herself with weeping , To drink tears like wine ’ . |
| 16 | The book does for harmonisation in Europe 1992 what John Wayne did for the ballet . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 've got an obit of poor old Eddy Moulton to do for the Journalist . |
| 19 | Just what have South Africa done for the game during their isolation ? |
| 20 | What did Doctor Jekyll ask his friend Lanyon to do for him ? |
| 21 | Is it to set the general atmosphere and mood as Stravinsky did for The Firebird Mysterious sounds of the wind whispering in the trees , the soaring flight of a bird and the heavy tread of an unseen foot are still a wonderful introduction to this magic tale . |
| 22 | Adam did for Rufus what Lewis would have called ‘ navigating ’ . |
| 23 | WHAT WILDER 's Boulevard did for the fading grandeur of old Hollywood , Mackendrick did for the furious pulsating rhythms of New York 's sleazy showbiz scene . |
| 24 | No more than the answer she gave in the Crime and Punishment which did get printed , to the not quite taunting question ‘ And what does God do for you ? ’ |
| 25 | What did the FA do for us with the Stuttgart incident last year ? |
| 26 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We know what CAMRA did for real ale and there is even a chance — is n't there ? — that Greenpeace will save us from ourselves . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Justification is a descriptive doctrine ; it is a way of explaining what God does for us in Christ . |