Example sentences of "do [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they have done wonders for improving Nissan 's stodgy old image in Japan . |
| 2 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |
| 3 | He is supposed to have done wonders for Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | The old certainties have gone , on both Left and Right , and the loss of dogma seems to have done wonders for Brenton as a dramatist . |
| 5 | The Emperor has done wonders for Paris , and for the Bois de Boulogne . |
| 6 | A TANGLE over patents with the Ministry of Defence has done wonders for sales of a new radar system for small boats . |
| 7 | His ‘ Organ ’ Symphony , recorded in Les Invalides , never sounded particularly impressive on LP given rather cloudy sound which took the edge off what was obviously a fine performance , but CD remastering has done wonders for the engineering and the results are most exciting . |
| 8 | He spent hours with the local clergyman who had his own private store of medicines such as Epsom salts , gentian , laudanum , and quantities of port which he believed built up the strength , and he had seen for himself how garlic had done wonders for children with whooping cough . |
| 9 | New trainer Jimmy Tibbs has done wonders for Benn . |
| 10 | ‘ It is really terrific news and it has done wonders for morale with everybody very upbeat , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 11 | Her absences had done wonders for their marriage . |
| 12 | Dad was saying that Herr Hitler had done wonders for Germany . |
| 13 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 14 | But in a strange way he has done wonders for our social life . |
| 15 | If nothing else , the jamboree has done wonders for the national dress . |
| 16 | But seriously speaking , going to Medau classes has done wonders for me . |
| 17 | you can then make it do work for you ? |
| 18 | What will he do look for another or |
| 19 | So we well this week on Tuesday we 're erm going swim and spa and Rosemary and Anne and all them er Maggie they 're , they are all there so this is what we 're gon na do try for this week and see what it 's like , you know go through all the system there . |
| 20 | They identify aspects of grief and restitution , the need to feel secure and confident that all that can be done has been done to recompense for earlier losses , and that one has a safe confidante somewhere in the situation . |
| 21 | I know sometimes erm people when they got their benefit , would try and do shopping for two weeks , but even that was unrealistic of how long they were , what they were buying was going to last for two weeks . |
| 22 | Despite the scale and depth of change little was done to prepare for new demands of management . |
| 23 | March wind doth blow for some time to come , according to the coastguard , and believe me it blows hellish hard round Gullholm . ’ |
| 24 | ( It was later to do work for the Independent . ) |
| 25 | The Inland Revenue ca n't take it off you , ’ says Lord Teviot , who is also quite open about the fact that all a Lord has to do to qualify for his expenses is to walk into the chamber , have his name logged by a doorkeeper and walk out . |
| 26 | All you had to do to qualify for torture , persecution and death was to be a female who dared step out of line with patriarchal society . |
| 27 | So , I , cos I had to do talking for her and all ! |
| 28 | In giving consent to another 's actions , however , our primary purpose is to authorise those actions and in so doing create for or accord to another a special right to act : the obligation generated on the consentor not to interfere with the exercise of this right takes , in this case , the secondary role . |
| 29 | Erm , could you just put your hands up if you 're doing recording for Corpus . |
| 30 | Work it out of your system so that , eventually , what you are doing becomes for the time being the only thing in existence . |