Example sentences of "did for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert ’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved . |
| 2 | Ginsberg 's Howl actually came out while Leonard was there , doing for the fifties and sixties generation what Eliot 's The Waste Land did for the twenties and thirties , and not least Ginsberg 's ‘ A Supermarket In California ’ , in which he questioned Lorca 's lonely habits ; as did Lawrence Ferlinghetti 's Picture Of The Gone World . |
| 3 | Is it to set the general atmosphere and mood as Stravinsky did for The Firebird Mysterious sounds of the wind whispering in the trees , the soaring flight of a bird and the heavy tread of an unseen foot are still a wonderful introduction to this magic tale . |
| 4 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 5 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 6 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 7 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 8 | Archbishop Fisher was very pleased at what Ramsey did for the conference . |
| 9 | Will last month 's breakdown of the GATT talks do for the 1990s what Smoot-Hawley did for the 1930s ? |
| 10 | Among Fianna Fail members , Mr MacSharry is seen as the man with the courage and determination to revive the party 's flagging fortunes , just as he did for the Irish economy four years ago . |
| 11 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 12 | Conservatives have decided to do for the freedom fighters what the American left of the '30s did for the Communists in Spain . |
| 13 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
| 14 | The more I did for the Trust , the more I learnt about pregnancy , birth , breastfeeding , motherhood and myself . |
| 15 | Luckily a feature she once did for the programme gave Christine some clothes tips which she has followed faithfully ever since . |
| 16 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 17 | For most LDCs the export of primary commodities no longer guarantees economic growth as it did for the USA , Canada , Sweden , etc. , in the 1800s . |
| 18 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 19 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'll get a good reaction from our fans because the people appreciate everything he did for the club , ’ Rush said . |
| 21 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |
| 22 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 23 | What was the first thing he did for the NME ? |
| 24 | WHAT WILDER 's Boulevard did for the fading grandeur of old Hollywood , Mackendrick did for the furious pulsating rhythms of New York 's sleazy showbiz scene . |
| 25 | WHAT WILDER 's Boulevard did for the fading grandeur of old Hollywood , Mackendrick did for the furious pulsating rhythms of New York 's sleazy showbiz scene . |
| 26 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 27 | The aim of the conference will be to do for this junction of Europe and Asia what the Helsinki conference in 1975 did for the rest of Europe . |
| 28 | I went to Anastasiya Pavlovna 's , introduced myself , and she said , ‘ I 've got some works by Chagall , some studies that he did for the Jewish Theatre and several other works as well ’ . |
| 29 | The book does for harmonisation in Europe 1992 what John Wayne did for the ballet . |
| 30 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |