Example sentences of "[noun sg] did for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will last month 's breakdown of the GATT talks do for the 1990s what Smoot-Hawley did for the 1930s ? |
| 2 | erm And if you look at the second line , and begin three words in , it says ‘ the mistress , ’ the mistress is abbreviated , ‘ answers her man can not work , nor can she spare him till she be paid for what her husband did for the King 's soldiers ’ . |
| 3 | Just as this same lively and turbulent natural process did for the ancient Egyptians . |
| 4 | And Na-dene did for the Jews . |
| 5 | Cordless power-tools are doing for woodworkers what Fast Food did for the High Street over a decade ago . |
| 6 | Why does not he address the problem seriously and put real money into solving it — or will he continue to opt out and sell out , just as the Prime Minister did for the country in Maastricht yesterday ? |
| 7 | 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 . |