Example sentences of "do for [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’
2 The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , says everything possible is being done for a twenty eight year old man who 's spent thirteen months in an Indian jail .
3 ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’
4 Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her .
5 It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open .
6 WHAT 'S BEING DONE FOR THE 11,000 DEAF AND BLIND ?
7 Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers .
8 When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased .
9 Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well .
10 What he did for that man on the cross , he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us .
11 Will last month 's breakdown of the GATT talks do for the 1990s what Smoot-Hawley did for the 1930s ?
12 ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes .
13 ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes .
14 That coterie would also act , as they did for the 1991 event , very much as a think tank .
15 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 .
16 I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house .
17 Will last month 's breakdown of the GATT talks do for the 1990s what Smoot-Hawley did for the 1930s ?
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