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Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] do for " in BNC.

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1	So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system .
2	In seven years driving a cab this is the first time I 've been done for anything .
3	they 've been done for many years
4	They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’
5	‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it .
6	‘ This is something we 've been doing for years .
7	And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times .
8	‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’
9	‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months !
10	A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time .
11	It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months .
12	Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is
13	Questions 1 and 4 have been done for you .
14	Two have been done for you .
15	Some have been done for you .
16	Two sets have been done for you .
17	I think that probably they labour under a heavier burden in that , right from birth , in many cases , things have been done for them , to them and they have had very little control .
18	How dare this blanc try to interfere with the way things have been done for centuries ?
19	does worry me and I do n't think any provisions have been done for it and that is Isobel .
20	‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’
21	County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades .
22	That kind of riding is what horses have been doing for centuries .
23	In the mid-1980s the Uighur students called for independence from China , as the Tibetans have been doing for decades .
24	‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache .
25	I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’
26	Community care is what SSDs have been doing for decades .
27	One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library .
28	‘ It 's what men have been doing for centuries . ’
29	Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years .
30	Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago .