Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] doing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 2 | ‘ Talking of freedom , ’ James said , ‘ Kate and I were wondering what you were doing for Christmas . ’ |
| 3 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 4 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 5 | ‘ If he had any idea of what she was doing for us , MoD does n't want it spread around . |
| 6 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 7 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 8 | He spent all his spare time at the Hampstead house now , not only from a liking for the work he was doing for Paul , and Paul himself , but for the sight , the nearness , of Dinah . |
| 9 | In 1947 , in addition to the work he was doing for Lehmann , Minton illustrated two books for Paul Elek — Treasure Island and The Wanderer , an English translation of Alain-Fournier 's Le Grand Meaulnes . |
| 10 | After a few drinks Shildon had mentioned the work he was doing for Eliot . |
| 11 | After all he was doing for her , she had virtually accused him of trying to seduce her . |
| 12 | She was too old for a doll 's house now so it did n't matter , but she hoped he would finish what he was doing for Oliver . |
| 13 | Disenchanted with the way society had changed and their own place in it , again like many of their kind , they looked to Hitler as a role model , admired what he was doing for Germany . |