Example sentences of "i did for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert ’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved . |
| 2 | ‘ I did for him , see . |
| 3 | ‘ He said , ‘ I did for him ’ . ’ |
| 4 | I did for him . ’ |
| 5 | Is everything I did for Miss Elizabeth worthless and am I foolish to expect more of her ? |
| 6 | The more I did for the Trust , the more I learnt about pregnancy , birth , breastfeeding , motherhood and myself . |
| 7 | The massed volumes that take up the wall next to the window are evidence of the research I did for my first and second books : one a dual biography of two late Victorian figures , the politician George Wyndham and the poet and political campaigner Wilfred Scawen Blunt ; the other a life of the Edwardian Prime Minister Arthur Balfour . |
| 8 | There is a lot of satisfaction in achieving the clean , EPR look , but I really enjoy working in the dramatic , gritty PolaGraph style , like this set of swimwear shots I did for Ms London for example . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ After all I did for you ! |
| 10 | ‘ That I did for Mr Lambert , ’ but the rebuff was cancelled as he brushed her fingers using the back of his hand . |
| 11 | Marje adds : ‘ If you live a double life of lies and deception as I did for years and years , you need to speak about it eventually . |
| 12 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |
| 13 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 14 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for you , Mikhail . |
| 15 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for more than three years , ’ said Norman , who was a coppersmith at GEC in Manchester . |
| 16 | ‘ He can do for Lazio what I did for Napoli , ’ said the dethroned Argentine superstar , still talking excitedly yesterday about Gazza 's wonder goal on Tuesday night . |
| 17 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 18 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
| 19 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 20 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 21 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 22 | I offered to braid them for him ; and he paid me five shillings for half a dozen I did for him . ’ |
| 23 | No , that filthy little American soap I did for Hal Screwyouupalotodos . |
| 24 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |
| 25 | ‘ I guess we saw it that way : I did for sure . |
| 26 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 27 | ‘ She was only paying me back for what I did for her , and she should have gone on paying me back . ’ |
| 28 | This I did for five weeks returning to hospital to have my X-rays checked . |
| 29 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 30 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |