Example sentences of "do for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You befriend the person and therefore do whatever a caring relative would do for them , care for their needs , so that they know that you 're the person they can turn to . |
| 2 | Some writer should do for them what Bertrand Russell did for his grandfather and others in that exquisite volume Portraits from Memory . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're safe of themselves , I guarantee it ; but of course , a chance shot could do for them . |
| 4 | It would n't do for them to meet now . |
| 5 | There 's nothing you can do for them . ’ |
| 6 | Novelists relive and reshape the past , and do more for themselves than psychiatrists could do for them , and at such vast expense . |
| 7 | This no doubt guaranteed their trustworthiness to their new comrades and may well have persuaded them that if communism was for their brothers then it would do for them too . |
| 8 | Mrs Gracie and I are leaving those poor children — there is nothing we can do for them , after all — and going back to her house in Highbury . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the least I could do for them . ’ |
| 10 | This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income . |
| 11 | Throughout that year the committee met as a whole only every two or three months , and it seems that much of the running was made by the deputy head , who described how he visited every department to explain the new arrangements and what the library could do for them . |
| 12 | Nothing by mouth what else can you do for them ? |
| 13 | They 'd always be wanting nylons , he thought , he 'd seen what they 'd do for them during the war . |
| 14 | While many users have developed joyous fantasies about what a 256 megabit DRAM will do for them , others are somewhat concerned about whether an alliance between these three giants will adversely affect the performance of the DRAM market . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , there 's nothing much either of us can do for them . |
| 16 | I 'll make do for myself but I wo n't make do for them . |
| 17 | That I could get her to do things for me that she would n't do for them . |
| 18 | What , for that matter , did it do for them now ? |
| 19 | Conservatives believe that people should be left with as much as possible of their own money to spend in their own interests , in the clear belief that they will spend it better in their interests than any Government will do for them . |
| 20 | What we will do for them . |
| 21 | We have to make sure that we know what the customer wants ; they know what we can do for them , at what cost ; where ; when ; how and |
| 22 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 23 | So you 've got ta sell benefits you 've got ta know what the product can do for them , right you 've got to find out what they want from it I mean it might be security that 's the big problem |
| 24 | There was nothing they could do for him . |
| 25 | We 'll just have to see what a course of ECT will do for him . ’ |
| 26 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 27 | But then there was nothing they could do for him . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's nothing you can do for him , dear . |
| 29 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 30 | Any white spirit would do for him , he was n't fussy , and he poured himself a stiff vodka , some of that Polish stuff they had brought back from their Black Sea summer holiday . |