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 . |