Example sentences of "[be] doing [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I think perhaps what we 'll do cos you 've missed quite a few of these out so I think what we 'll do erm is to leave that what you 're doing there for a moment we 'll go through this mark this and the one 's you have n't done we 'll do so that you 've got this one straight . |
| 2 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 3 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 4 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 5 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 6 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 7 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 8 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 9 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 10 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 11 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 12 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 13 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 14 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 15 | Over the last four years the Midland Group have provided a crew for the Vintage Train on several occasions and for last September also handled their own marketing and ticket sales , as they are doing again for this October . |
| 16 | We are doing more for training than any previous Government and the Labour party is in no position to lecture us on that subject . |
| 17 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 18 | I hope this excluded ‘ young ’ Winston Churchill who seems to be doing more for the miners than the opposition parties put together . |
| 19 | And it is a good thing that someone sensible should be doing so for the subject has got into the hands of theorists of the most tiresome sort . |
| 20 | There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like . |
| 21 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 22 | I 'm doing more for Britain than some of the people actually born here . ’ |
| 23 | MONEY and securities broking is doing well for MAI , the financial services and media combine run by the Labour peer , Lord Hollick . |
| 24 | She has now settled in ; she is doing more for herself , and sometimes she is full of life in the Home . |
| 25 | But Paul 's head over that now so I mean he 's doing well for himself . |
| 26 | The issue flared up when the party was doing badly for other reasons , and subsided when it was not . |
| 27 | She decided that fingering was doing little for her , except making her more and more randy . |
| 28 | The humiliation of standing beside a woman who smelt , dressed and looked absolutely wonderful was doing little for her ego . |
| 29 | There was a tricky thing called the seminally defiled state , and you had to make sure that when your old lady left the house she was doing so for a specific purpose , but on the whole even Marwan was pretty laissez-faire about a girl and a boy talking about subjects of mutual interest . |