Example sentences of "they did for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Felipismo , Spaniards have come to depend on the state again , as they did for so long under Generalissimo Franco 's regime . ’ |
| 2 | For Durkheim and his associates such ceremonies did not represent , as they did for Frazer , magic as some separate predecessor of religion , but were themselves elementary forms of the religious life . |
| 3 | I 'll never forget them for what they did for me and I 'll miss them all terribly , ’ she added . |
| 4 | She was poor but proud , and the 1st Shadwell Brownie Pack had to be rather careful what they did for her . |
| 5 | There is no evidence to suggest that such orientation has the same religious significance as they did for Teotihuacan . |
| 6 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 7 | Did for 'em , the buggers , they did for 'em , bloody Australians . |
| 8 | The group did not have another discussion about wages for housework as such , although they did for some months follow Ruth 's prepared reading list — an introductory series of Marxist texts , and the issue of wages for housework emerged again through that , in a theoretical discussion . |
| 9 | Hawaiian they did for a living , jazz they played for themselves . |
| 10 | The opportunities of 1992 , however , could lead to a progressive harmonisation of anti-discriminatory legislation , and the changes in Eastern Europe provide further cause for us to extend our solidarity to lesbians and gays all over Europe , as they did for us . |
| 11 | This is what they did for Mrs W and her children . |
| 12 | The TV detection team did n't fall for it , any more than they did for the man who claimed his set was never used . |
| 13 | They did for a couple of years , and he won several tournaments and appeared in the Ryder Cup at the age of twenty-two . |
| 14 | However , even the inland counties might find themselves paying as much in local military taxes as they did for the subsidy ; and coastal shires might well pay more . |
| 15 | I do n't think they knew how to write for me as they did for Jackie and Russ [ William Russell ] . |
| 16 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
| 17 | As outpatient clinics developed in local general hospitals , GPs started to refer patients to consultants in exactly the same way as they did for other medical specialties . |
| 18 | How different it was all to be , and the marvel of it is that the plans prepared in the period after 1945 proved as robust as they did for so long . |
| 19 | If she told them what she was doing they would probably support her , probably do as good a job for her as they did for Nina . |
| 20 | But this never occurred , as the railways charged high rates for the carriage of dead meat , which required greater handling , than they did for livestock . |
| 21 | They might alternatively borrow an English word as they did for bulaki meaning bullock . |
| 22 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 23 | That coterie would also act , as they did for the 1991 event , very much as a think tank . |
| 24 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 25 | I mean t to for the cooking that they did for a pub it was and we had duckling and salmon , poached |
| 26 | doing , or did doing , they did for some purpose did n't they ? |
| 27 | crash , bang , wallop , gone what they did for work today a little bit of exercise , desk work a lot of exercise , exercise . |
| 28 | They did for last year . |