Example sentences of "[conj] did [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I know Switzerland well , or did on my own time track .
2 ‘ It was my heavy bones that did for me , as you well know ! ’
3 It was the kiss that did for me , I think , not being called a goldmine .
4 So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas .
5 She tied the strings of their aprons and did up their buttons , and she sat between them at their bread and milk breakfast which was at half past seven .
6 After dinner , her uncle and Finn went again to the workroom and her aunt put on her grey dress and silver collar and did up her coiffure .
7 I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt .
8 One can not argue of Co-operation then both that it was the dividend that did it , and did for it .
9 Nevertheless , visiting hours were an ordeal far more to be dreaded than the occasional unattractive things the doctors or nurses came and did to me .
10 Likewise , GST-GATA 1 ( 1.5μg ) failed to bind to the E2F site ( tracks 8 and 10 ) but did to its cognate binding site ( tracks 9 and 11 ) in the presence ( tracks 8 and 9 ) or absence ( tracks 10 and 11 ) of nonspecific salmon sperm DNA ( 2μg ) ; tracks 6 to 11 are from the same experiment .
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