Example sentences of "[pers pn] did for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 3 | That 's all we did for the statutory undertakers . |
| 4 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that there is much to be commended in general in his decision to reduce the infantry battalions by only 12 , 13 or 14 per cent. , which is a great deal better than what he did for the Regular Army ? |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |