Example sentences of "does for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are conscious of what Zuckerman does for Roth : when he helps a man to gather his spilt heart pills , it is Roth helping himself by assigning a small mercy . |
| 2 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 3 | Louis Untermeyer , Robert Frost 's correspondent who was to be an influential anthologist , wrote of Poems ( The Freeman , 30 June 1920 ) that ‘ Eliot cares more for his art than he does for his attitudes ’ ; and that ‘ the exaltation which is the very breath of poetry — that combination of tenderness and toughness — is scarcely ever present in Eliot 's lines ’ . |
| 4 | Thompson has never done what he does for anybody but himself . |
| 5 | The aim of this article is to help you find out more about what the MU really does for musicians , day after day after day … |
| 6 | For Porsche , the 911 holds the same place as the Dino Berlinetta Speciale does for Ferrari — a marvellous design that could be continually updated and evolved . |
| 7 | Justification is a descriptive doctrine ; it is a way of explaining what God does for us in Christ . |
| 8 | I want to say in conclusion that it has as many consequences for the devout Evangelical as it does for the hardened Catholic . |
| 9 | And that 's what being in a family does for you . |
| 10 | So that 's what lying in bed all day does for you . |
| 11 | Some of these royal gifts presented the warden with a formidable task : in December 1238 the sheriff of Essex and Richard de Munfichet , warden of the forest of Essex , were ordered to take alive in the forest 120 bucks and does for the Count of Flanders , put them in cages , and transport them in carts to the Thames , where Raymond Ruffus , a yeoman of the king , was to have a ship ready to take them to Flanders . |
| 12 | We have formed Scottish Trade International to help with our exporters , as Locate in Scotland does for inward investors . |
| 13 | McManus notes that ‘ aggression does not pay off for girls in the way some boys find it does for them ’ , with the result that many girls adapt to the social world of school in a different way . |
| 14 | The modern school must , to my mind , stand or full by what it does for the worst-equipped children . |
| 15 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
| 16 | ‘ We should ask national income estimators conceptual questions such as : which of the activities a farm family does for itself without payment , such as haircutting for example , have you included in the national income ? ’ , says a leading development economist ( Seers 1979 : 15 ) . |
| 17 | My old mate , who although he stands sixty fret high , is in fact only eighteen years old , said absolutely nothing but just went on waving his limbs as he does for most of the day . |
| 18 | That 's what a week in Dublin does for you , he thought . |
| 19 | That 's what turning the other cheek does for you . ’ |
| 20 | That 's what being idolised does for you . ’ |
| 21 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 22 | Of course he needs to know the obvious data like her starsign , blood-type , favourite foods and what her father does for a living . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 24 | But he does n't come often , only when he wants Mr Ballantyne to put up the money for one of his schemes or projects , which Mr Ballantyne usually does for the sake of his daughter . |
| 25 | I hope that we are never foolish enough to take what it does for granted — because that is when it will begin to crumble and fail like so many others have done . |
| 26 | Hobnobbing in TV circles he may even get to meet Richard Briars and solve a mystery that 's plagued him for years : Those voice-overs he does for ads on the telly , he always sounds so out of breath . |
| 27 | Taylor added : ‘ Nigel will be asked to play as he does for his club , his normal game . |
| 28 | They rang us to reveal all the good work Lamb does for them — one of many messages of support for him . |
| 29 | Which it does for several years . |
| 30 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |