Example sentences of "have do [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisers of the Women 's Festival are looking for the woman who has done most for the welfare , health or quality of life of women in the town in the last year . |
| 2 | He did well for the likes of Cammell Laird and other plant closures , and has done well for the people at Rock Ferry . ’ |
| 3 | He has done well for himself Elsie and it seems he does not drink any more . |
| 4 | FOR a writer who was put in the ‘ Garbage School of Literature ’ along with Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner by the editor of the Jackson Daily News , Eudora Welty has done well for herself . |
| 5 | the stitchwort has done well for itself , clinging |
| 6 | But he is an honest-to-goodness player who has done well for us after a shaky start . |
| 7 | ‘ The business in Stillington has done well for instance but we need to rationalise our presence in others , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Works like the transcriptions of Berlioz 's Fantastic Symphony , and the opera excerpts , Hexameron , the Ballades , Legends , Polonaises , and then there are those colossal religious pieces , some well known , others complete rarities ; all extend our appreciation and knowledge as no-one has done previously for Liszt 's piano music . |
| 9 | BARB 's research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day ( and has done so for at least the last 10 years ) , just over half of this being ITV . |
| 10 | Radio 4 's excellent Margaret Howard , who presents Pick of The Week ( and has done so for 17 years ) is in the same boat . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 12 | But I 'll tell you this , that young man has done more for Wales already than we could dream of . ’ |
| 13 | Interestingly , the projected shortfall in the availability of skilled labour has done more for equal opportunity employment than more than a decade of educational programmes . |
| 14 | Joshua ( naturally , that is not his real name ) has done more for road safety in the village than anyone else for many a long year . |
| 15 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 16 | He walked barefoot to three shrines , and he returned shriven , and has done more for the church than any King of Alba before him . |
| 17 | Mark Pitman says the horse has done more for him than he can ever do for it in return … he 's a good performer |
| 18 | ‘ No Government has done more for racing than this one . |
| 19 | The Anglo-American lati relationship has done more for the defence and future of freedom than any other alliance in the world . |
| 20 | With only two men outside the circle for the first 15 overs , he could run riot in the way that Greatbatch has done recently for New Zealand . |
| 21 | He thought that there was no barrier and that in time he could have done more for them . |
| 22 | As she was also trying out several other would-be choreographers and having new ballets made for Sadler 's Wells by Ashton and Howard too , she could hardly have done more for someone who was regarded as promising ( by some people as highly promising ) but unproven . |
| 23 | No mother could ever have done more for the girl . |
| 24 | At a time when the price of an Old Master painting can consume an entire annual acquisition budget , Mr Brown 's burnishing of the gallery 's image may have done more for the permanent collection than is immediately apparent . |
| 25 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 26 | No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow . |
| 27 | Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons . |
| 28 | National Galleries of Scotland , Edinburgh , appear to have done best for themselves so far ( reflecting both their director 's passion for Old Master drawings and their larger budget ) , and have acquired four of the drawings . |
| 29 | I feel I ought to have done more for her . " |
| 30 | Did n't he realize how much she wanted to tell him about Aunt Emily 's magical generosity and her own longing to have done more for her while she lived — ? |