Example sentences of "[pron] he do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Newport asked Richard to teach in his place , which he did for a few months . |
| 2 | At first , the only way was to rent studio space on a percentage basis with the services of a secretary , which he did for eighteen months or so . |
| 3 | When Ken thereupon resigned , however , William appealed to him to remain , which he did for a further year . |
| 4 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'll get a good reaction from our fans because the people appreciate everything he did for the club , ’ Rush said . |
| 6 | I know he told me that it was some sort of favour for something he did for your father a long time ago , but what ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And he told me he did for Mr Bishop . |
| 8 | Sure enough , when Ambrose took it he did for Russell with a shooter and then disposed of the rest . |
| 9 | Thompson has never done what he does for anybody but himself . |
| 10 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
| 11 | " Know what he does for a living ? " |
| 12 | You do n't even know what he does for a living properly ! ’ |
| 13 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 14 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Pros today should go down on their knees and say a prayer of thanks for what he did for our profession . ’ |
| 18 | Not only did John make full appearances in Palace 's promotion side of 1968–69 , but he absolutely relished the challenge of Division One and , unless you saw him there for the Palace you will simply never know just what he did for us . |
| 19 | Can Cantona do for United what he did for Leeds last season , then ? |
| 20 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 21 | Will Jeff Koons do for Sgarbi what he did for that other member of the Italian Parliament , the even nuder Cicciolina ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | " I 'd like to write to the marquis and thank him for what he did for me . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that many people in this country find it almost inconceivable to understand how such a crook as Maxwell could have got away with what he did for so long without the Crown prosecution service being in any way involved ? |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | What he did for that man on the cross , he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us . |