Example sentences of "he did for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did you say he did for a living ? ’ |
| 2 | One of the simplest and most elegant demonstrations of this was by Peter Lawrence , as part of the work he did for a Ph.D at Cambridge . |
| 3 | Lord Newport asked Richard to teach in his place , which he did for a few months . |
| 4 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 5 | When Ken thereupon resigned , however , William appealed to him to remain , which he did for a further year . |
| 6 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 7 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
| 8 | He looked elegantly at home , quite above this sort of thing , and she could n't help wondering who he actually was and what he did for a living . |
| 9 | Well he did a he did for a bit . |
| 10 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'll get a good reaction from our fans because the people appreciate everything he did for the club , ’ Rush said . |
| 15 | What was the first thing he did for the NME ? |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Did your brother go out much , apart from the travelling he did for the firm ? ’ |
| 20 | Well he did for the Wigan one . |