Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [det] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 2 | So maybe what we need to do is to pay more for the timber , and be prepared to do that . |
| 3 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 4 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 5 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 6 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 7 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 8 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 9 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 10 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |