Example sentences of "[was/were] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 3 | However , some of his more publicised swimming feats were done for cash , and include swims that the majority of exceptional swimmers would baulk at . |
| 4 | All which things these dukes wist well were done for good purpose and necessary by the whole council at London . ’ |
| 5 | ( Almost , she thought afterwards , as if it were done for her . ) |
| 6 | In the old days you were done for . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought we were done for , ’ Kimberley said . |
| 8 | All which things these dukes wist well were done for good purpose and necessary by the whole council at London . ’ |
| 9 | These were done for a particular customer that wanted them buffed . |
| 10 | Yah , all those Grots which were done for El Sol . |
| 11 | But the afternoon was done for . |
| 12 | Concentrated work was done for Guy 's pelvis and foot , to improve his standing balance . |
| 13 | Looking now at the actual differences in digestion between the different predator species , they can be divided into a number of categories as was done for the molars . |
| 14 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 15 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 16 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 17 | Stalin had had his birthplace at Gori in Georgia converted into a shrine and much the same was done for Ceauşescu 's home village at Scorniceşti . |
| 18 | Probably by saying that he only supplied what custom dictated as appropriate to the social status of the deceased , and that everything was done for the complete satisfaction of his client . |
| 19 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 20 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 21 | While the domination of the criminal market was well known within the profession nothing was done for two main reasons : first , solicitors were making a handsome living and were under no pressure to find or create alternative sources of income : and second , there appeared to be no way in which these cartels could be broken by ethical means : |
| 22 | The assay was done for 30 min in the presence of either 0.1μM free Ca 2+ and 0.9mM sodium deoxycholate ( + ) , or 10μM free Ca 2+ and 3.4mM sodium deoxycholate ( ++ ) . |
| 23 | It was done for Harlech and LWT ( 1967 ) and for TVS and TSW ( 1981 ) in pre-evisting regions , and for Yorkshire TV ( 1967 ) and TV-AM ( 1981 ) with new franchises . |
| 24 | Empress Software claims to have the first RDBMS and 4GL running on MACH on a 486 : The port was done for TRW Financial Systems which is standardising on MACH . |
| 25 | After 1832 , after Reform , in Britain revolution was done for . |
| 26 | Normally , the first trade was done for about £2,000 . |
| 27 | In Equation ( 2.10.2.1 ) we derived A as the product of two given symmetric matrices , unc and B ; this was done for convenience in the examples . |
| 28 | This one was done for driving without due care and attention and he got the maximum fine . |
| 29 | ‘ What was done was done for Ireland , ’ said Dierdriu . |
| 30 | All his surviving work was done for religious houses in the south-west . |