Example sentences of "have done for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we change the name , we show disrespect for all of the good things the party has done for Poland . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 3 | ‘ Japan is our biggest export market and we have seen what protectionism has done for the US automotive industry . ’ |
| 4 | Nor does he wish to begrudge what Bread has done for his career . |
| 5 | Some say that The Mercy Seat is the best thing Cave has done for five years , since Mutiny in Heaven . |
| 6 | As he has done for years , Jean Pierson , Airbus 's boss , replies that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas get billions of dollars of ‘ indirect ’ support from defence programmes and NASA contracts . |
| 7 | So whatever the ankle has done for sex , its contribution to other games of chance has been incalculable . |
| 8 | Indeed , the Conservative Party did begin to widen its potential appeal by issuing a plethora of pamphlets in the 1920s : Aims and Principles ( 1924 ) , What Unionists have done for Workers ( 1925 ) , What the Conservative Government has done for Education ( 1928 ) and What the Conservative Government has done for Health ( 1929 ) . |
| 9 | Indeed , the Conservative Party did begin to widen its potential appeal by issuing a plethora of pamphlets in the 1920s : Aims and Principles ( 1924 ) , What Unionists have done for Workers ( 1925 ) , What the Conservative Government has done for Education ( 1928 ) and What the Conservative Government has done for Health ( 1929 ) . |
| 10 | She has just finished a portrait of seven-year-old Tulip Dempster , a Pekingese , commissioned by Lady Camilla for Nigel Dempster 's birthday — the second one she has done for the family — and a portrait of Mr and Mrs John Menzies ' two dogs . |
| 11 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 12 | Mrs Maureen Howie , head teacher of La Retraite School , in Lambeth , south London , said : ‘ The real disappointment for us would be that such a move would be made without looking very carefully at what grant maintained schools have achieved , and at what the pilot movement has done for children . ’ |
| 13 | That is the analysis Johansson has done for Sweden , and Reddy has done for the state of Karnataka , India . |
| 14 | That is the analysis Johansson has done for Sweden , and Reddy has done for the state of Karnataka , India . |
| 15 | ‘ He has done for himself now ’ I finally said as we came down through Grasmere to get some transport back to our room . |
| 16 | Well add to this a built-in tuner , internal monitor speaker for practising and a versatile range of footswitch control and you 'll see that the RY10 is set to do for guitarists what our ground-breaking QY10 has done for Keyboard players and for just £249 ! |
| 17 | Moreover , such a demonstration would produce an accessible shop window of ‘ green ’ street environments which could have just as dramatic an effect on the way we think about our public spaces as it has done for the Germans . |
| 18 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 19 | Christian presuppositions are nothing less than the whole truth of who God is and what he has done for us . |
| 20 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 21 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |
| 22 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |
| 23 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 24 | Keegan said : ‘ A lot of people appreciate what Mick has done for this club . |
| 25 | ‘ It falls to me , as it did first with Peter Shilton and then with Terry Butcher , to place on record on behalf of the Football Association what he has done for his country . |
| 26 | When God instructs his people Israel to care for the poor , the appeal is invariably on the basis of what he has done for them . |
| 27 | The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years . |
| 28 | Legion wished to be a disciple but Jesus told him to remain where he was in his own district and tell all the people what … the Lord in his mercy has done for you ( Mark 5:19 ) . |
| 29 | What he has done for leukaemia research is brilliant — and what he has done for me is give me my confidence back . |
| 30 | What he has done for leukaemia research is brilliant — and what he has done for me is give me my confidence back . |