Example sentences of "[been] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 2 | Again no reference will be made to party authorities in the guberniia capital , since this has already been done for Smolensk . |
| 3 | ‘ I certainly do , ’ Frau Nordern answered , as if the room had been done for her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If they 've asked for really impossible things , it means the whole siege has been done for publicity — and they 'll probably kill Liam whatever happens . |
| 6 | ‘ The kennels failed health and safety standards , so they 're half finished — nothing 's been done for a year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Schools that have had an HMI inspection have found that much of their work has been done for them — though it is difficult to imagine that schools will therefore be applying in large numbers for a full inspection ! |
| 9 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |
| 10 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 11 | This is what has been done for ‘ pocket ’ LC TV . |
| 12 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | It will certainly not be possible to totally reconstruct all the streets of an area at a cost of up to DM 1 million/100m as has been done for single streets in the past ’ |
| 15 | This is the job of the dealer … providing you buy from a reputable source , you can be sure this will have been done for you . |
| 16 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 17 | Angle has a plaque honouring its Fighter Command history and the same has been done for Pembroke Dock and its flying-boat squadrons . |
| 18 | She appreciated Doc Threadneedle 's handiwork , but also she learned to love what had been done for her before the biowizard came along . |
| 19 | The public spectacle of culture , the adoption of culture by the media , the standardisation of culture , the cultural discourse , cultural self-satisfaction , a slack cultural conformism , the recuperation of culture never has so much apparently been done for culture , never have the results ( another word that deserves some elaboration ) been so disappointing . |
| 20 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 21 | When she hinted to Dona Marguerita that she was sometimes bored and would like to get out of the house and see more of the country , the old lady was quick to point out how much had already been done for her . |
| 22 | And I think kids should be encouraged to erm think about themselves rather than just tick boxes and I think er , er er a group of sentences down here written by the form teacher , by the subject teacher and the pupil erm , as it 's been done for about , for a few years , a good habit to get the kids into , erm especially as a record of achievement should start from year seven . |
| 23 | Do you see what I mean , see most of this has been done for the convenience of the Quick Save Supermarkets on that er , I should say . |
| 24 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 25 | The first one has been done for you . |
| 26 | The first has been done for you . |
| 27 | Questions 1 and 4 have been done for you . |
| 28 | Question 7 has been done for you . |
| 29 | Two have been done for you . |
| 30 | Some have been done for you . |