Example sentences of "did for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something like resentment was beginning to swell in Cardiff ; a resentment that he was now doing as he was told by these newcomers — these newcomers who seemed to have more answers than he did for whatever in hell was going on here . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And the kitchen and bathroom he did for me in Teddington and ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 6 | So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas . |
| 7 | He also caught a number of covert glances at himself : was that what a few moment 's conversation with a presidential aide did for you in this town ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Remember what Alan Taylor did for us at West Ham in 1975 ? |
| 10 | O K so look let me just go through these notices er for today 's tutorial period , one or two changes erm again a thought for the week from the chaplain to begin with , during the approaching season of Lent , the best thing we can do is to centre our thoughts on what Jesus Christ did for us through his passion , death and resurrection . |