Example sentences of "[vb mod] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | though this must do for the time being . |
| 2 | What an anniversary should do for Mozart |
| 3 | Some writer should do for them what Bertrand Russell did for his grandfather and others in that exquisite volume Portraits from Memory . |
| 4 | What a true friend should do for you . |
| 5 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 6 | Chop up your milk-fed lamb — a kilo should do for four people — into whatever size you fancy . |
| 7 | SIR — In your leading article ‘ What Brussels should do for research ’ ( see Nature 362 , 93 ; 1993 ) you emphasized the need to increase the quality , quantity and participation in science research in countries such as Ireland . |
| 8 | Oddly I was uneasy about this , worrying over what I should do for my friends when I got home . |
| 9 | It was very well presented and that whilst Billy Connolly freely admitted he was not in fact a culture vulture , it was his enthusiasm that in a sense having his own that make the programme apparently a complete and utter joy and in a sense that 's what sponsorship should do , it should do for art , music , ballet and opera what Cousteau and Bellamy have done for the environment and Attenborough |
| 10 | The Pre-Raphaelites may do for the Victorians . |
| 11 | Not everyone can negotiate discounts or travel to shows , though in most cases you should get a discount for buying a complete set up , and may do for investing in several expensive fish at once . |
| 12 | ‘ Lady , ’ said Hotspur , ‘ there is yet something you may do for me , if you will . ’ |
| 13 | As you may be aware , elements of the corporate financial services work we may do for you are regulated under the Financial Services Act ( ‘ FSA ’ ) by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( ‘ ICAEW ’ ) as investment business ( ‘ regulated work ’ ) . |
| 14 | Lord Denning MR said : Every member of the community is entitled to carry on any trade or business he chooses and in such manner as he thinks most desirable in his own interests , so long as he does nothing unlawful : with the consequence that any contract which interferes with the free exercise of his trade or business , by restricting him in the work he may do for others , or the arrangements which he may make with others , is a contract in restraint of trade . |
| 15 | He had no intention of drinking the stuff , but it might do for a shave . |
| 16 | The broom was there , sawdust , a pile of dirty pots , two kegs of ale , but nothing that might do for a skirt . |
| 17 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 18 | It might do for you when you get a job . |
| 19 | I thought they might do for us — just for the moment , anyway . |
| 20 | As I have indicated on page 48 , there are a lot of other things an agency can or might do for you , and lots of departments it could have to do it . |
| 21 | No attempt will be made to separate out what accounting methods might do for pre-investment as distinct from post-investment . |
| 22 | He might do for me very well . |
| 23 | If there is something I might do for you in return ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He might do for you — it 's not too late , ’ said Miss Grimes jovially . |
| 25 | He had shown what a little flair might do for the army as a whole . |
| 26 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 27 | Hey , that might do for my chairs do you think ? |
| 28 | ‘ It 'll do for the man it is for . |
| 29 | That 'll do for now , but I may want to talk to you again . ’ |
| 30 | It 'll do for you in the end . ’ |