Example sentences of "[noun prp] had done for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neff built up the firm 's business in the USA not by dint of one overwhelming individual personality , as Roche had done for Heidrick and Struggles , but by exemplifying the success of the Spencer Stuart method of problem-solving in management crises across a range of corporate sectors . |
| 2 | He 'd seen what Madge Grimsilk had done for Therese in Maritza , and had savagely braced himself to give no sign , no indication of anything when he saw her Luxembourg costumes . |
| 3 | Harry wondered what it was Heather had done for Miss Labrooy , but felt glad , on the whole , that he did not know . |
| 4 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 5 | First he looked through the typed notes that Diane had done for him . |
| 6 | Meeting us where we are , meeting as in our needs there , and then changing us and sending us out as his followers , with his message sharing , that 's all this woman did , simply sharing what God , in Christ had done for her . |
| 7 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |
| 8 | They were encouraged to remember the past and warned of the danger of forgetting what God had done for them ( e.g. Deuteronomy 6:12 ) . |
| 9 | Abraham was accepted by God in virtue of what Christ would do upon the cross by bearing the curse of the broken law upon his representative shoulders : men living after the cross could be accepted by God as they put their trust in what God had done for them through Jesus . |
| 10 | Smith saw the opportunity to do for books what Jack Cohen had done for groceries at Tesco 's — ‘ Pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap . ’ |
| 11 | After what Clive had done for him , he would be forever in his debt . |
| 12 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 13 | He did not use the existing Defence Committee , which he chaired , as Attlee had done for Korea . |
| 14 | This is what Sandro had done for him . |
| 15 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |