Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bank Assistants , ask not what the IBOA can do for you but what can you do for the IBOA to get justice for your claim . |
| 2 | The domino effect can work for us as well as against us if we play our cards right . |
| 3 | And no gratitude — your Auntie can slave for you , work her fingers to the bone , but it 's Miss Green gets the thank yous ! |
| 4 | Moreover , poetry can do for us what religion and philosophy no longer can , that is tell us ‘ what to feel ’ and ‘ what to do ’ ; poetry , Science and Poetry concludes ( p. 82 ) , is ‘ capable of saving us . ’ |
| 5 | Law binds not because it says it does ( although it does say just that ) but because there are good reasons for accepting its claim to mandatoriness and these good reasons have to do with what law can do for us in certain situations of social opportunity , difficulty and peril . |
| 6 | What Aromatherapy Can Do For You |
| 7 | The chairman of the Conservative party can vote for the motion because he is opposed to a referendum , and the right hon. Lady can vote for it because she advocates a referendum . |
| 8 | Amazing what a positive attitude can do for you ! |
| 9 | Once humanity can formulate for itself a truly superstition-free religion , such activities would die a natural death , as for example , has the burning of ‘ witches ’ , although even this hideous ritual would be not entirely free from revival if a godless , religious vacuum were allowed to form . |
| 10 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 11 | The Greens want regional self-reliance , in agriculture as well as in other things ; a land tax applied so that ‘ in general terms , the nearer the land is to its natural state , the lower the land tax would be ’ ; energy efficiency ; population reduction through encouragement and education ( with 15–20 million the target for Britain ) ; and a sharing of ‘ the abundance which nature can provide for us all if the greedy do not take more than their fair share ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Just shows what a good caddie can do for you , ’ he said , with a generous smile at Patrick . |
| 13 | ‘ Such a man , with a good track record can fight for his plant and his people on the very strong grounds that investment in his region has been proven to be successful . |
| 14 | So that employees can truly assess the new country , some firms pay for short ‘ look-see ’ visits so that the executive and spouse can judge for themselves , first-hand , as to whether they should accept the transfer . |
| 15 | It is important that the counsellor , observing the problems and deprivations within the group , does not fall into the trap of being more concerned with what he or she can do for the group than what the group can do for itself . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Some nationalised industries already offer these benefits ; and in some cases , such as the teachers ' scheme , a woman with a dependent husband can arrange for him to receive a pension on her death . |
| 18 | When you get angry about losing your husband can , yo ha , losing your husband can ask for his wife , from your daughter about how to deal with it ? |
| 19 | When your Protected Shorthold Tenancy expires you and your landlord can agree for you to become a new-style Assured Shorthold Tenant . |
| 20 | There 's never been a more attractive way to see what GLA can do for you . |
| 21 | Local residents , for example , who fear increased traffic can apply for their own traffic calming , since the authorities are now able to introduce it . |
| 22 | ‘ With the Smart Rope , the condition of the rope being hired is visible and the hirer can sign for it in the full knowledge of its condition , ’ says Jim Oag . |
| 23 | You 're a failure as a home-maker , mother , superwoman , as Eagle Eyes from next door can see for herself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Some of the other letters in the box ( the typed ones ) were much less elegant , and seemed to have come from strangers ; they contained advice of a different sort , instructions about where to get sex and how much to pay for it if necessary , often these were just plain filth like I 'd like to do this to you and then I 'd like to do that to you , be at the top of the park in your grey school trousers and I 'll show you what a real man can do for you . |
| 26 | The greatest love a man can have for his friends is to give his life for them and you are my friends , if you do what I command . |
| 27 | She maintained links with the Quakers but made a point of religious independence : ‘ As I am not a member of any community , no society can answer for my irregular conduct . ’ |
| 28 | The right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) can vote for it while being reluctant to concede any more sovereignty to the Community , and the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East can vote for it because he is in favour of conceding more sovereignty to the Community . |
| 29 | It may be that meaning is only a complication and that social science can allow for it by regarding human affairs as simply more complex than the other workings of nature . |
| 30 | Make a date at your nearest appointed salon and discover what Lamaur hair care can do for you . |