Example sentences of "had [be] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 2 | ‘ I certainly do , ’ Frau Nordern answered , as if the room had been done for her . |
| 3 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 4 | By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification , the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe 's nations , showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe . |
| 5 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 6 | James decided to concentrate his efforts on subduing Londonderry , but in the end had to ride back , damp and disappointed , to Dublin , where , on 26 April , as he wrote in his memoirs , ‘ he found the arms not arrived from Cork , Kinsale or Waterford ; and that in the arsenal nothing had been done for preparing of tools ’ . |
| 7 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 8 | She appreciated Doc Threadneedle 's handiwork , but also she learned to love what had been done for her before the biowizard came along . |
| 9 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 10 | Nothing had been done for the women who were exploited by prostitution . |
| 11 | Miguel took the card and wrote on it what had been done for Samantha . |
| 12 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 13 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 14 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 15 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 17 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 18 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 19 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |