Example sentences of "[be] doing [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're doing this for Fudge and Roz down here . |
| 2 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 3 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 4 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 5 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 6 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 7 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 8 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 9 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 10 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 11 | Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence — as though women have n't been doing that for centuries . |
| 12 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 13 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 14 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 15 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 16 | I have been doing this for over ten years . |
| 17 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 18 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |
| 19 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 20 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 21 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 22 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 23 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 24 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 25 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 26 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 27 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 30 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |