Example sentences of "did for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The only things the Tories did for me as a businessman was to empty a lot of factory space which made it easy to buy up . |
2 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
3 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
4 | So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas . |
5 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |