Example sentences of "it did for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as a concept determining the political and educational programme , it remained rather vague , standing as it did for all manner of virtues before a spectrum of interests . |
| 2 | This it did for all but 150 years , becoming one of the best known and best loved of all our rural branch lines . ’ |
| 3 | The rising threshold of competence needed in the job market and the relative decline in traditional semi-skilled or unskilled jobs means that the compulsory school can no longer hope to provide a marketable , vocational education as it did for some ( usually lower-achieving ) children in the past . |
| 4 | He submitted that the undercover exercise , lasting as it did for some three months , was contrary to public policy . |
| 5 | It seemed improbable that the fine hot weather should continue right through the summer , but so it did for most of us . |