Example sentences of "done for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he has done for years , Jean Pierson , Airbus 's boss , replies that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas get billions of dollars of ‘ indirect ’ support from defence programmes and NASA contracts . |
| 2 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 3 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 4 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |
| 5 | It 's good to have someone to bounce ideas off and talk to — it 's something men have known about and done for years . |
| 6 | It will certainly not seem long if you work consistently toward daily targets , in a few weeks you 'll be doing things you have n't done for years , or never thought possible . |
| 7 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 8 | Every night I do something I have n't done for years . |
| 9 | Arguably , however , many do and have done for years . |
| 10 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 11 | I always cry at the doctor 's , have done for years . |
| 12 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 13 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 14 | This is the sort of thing Reader 's Digest have done for years , of course , on great enormous computers . |