Example sentences of "[be] doing [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Houseplants are good for you , according to Californian a laboratory that has been doing research for NASA into the use of plants in space . |
| 2 | Those parties for whom work is to be done or who themselves are doing work for engineers must be aware of the inherent uncertainties involved in the project and negotiate a sensible and commercially prudent apportionment of liability . |
| 3 | Those people who have the record sheets from last week , ten , ten people that are doing work for the British National Corpus . |
| 4 | It 's absolutely clear that the public body should be doing work for private sector organisations , and er , to my knowledge , Lincolnshire County Council have not been to that particular erm , definition , although other authorities do and I have had to stop other authorities undertaking contracts where they are er private sector organisations . |
| 5 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 6 | I 'M DOING IT FOR YOU MICHAEL |
| 7 | When Ian Thomson and the current editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Devereux were doing fieldwork for their book The Ley Hunter 's Companion , they visited the crypt and found that the needle of their compass maintained a strange rhythmic ‘ jigging ’ motion . |
| 8 | The firm says it is doing work for IBM in other areas but declined to be more specific , although that suggests that IBM may have taken on board the message that it needs outsiders to run some of its key business units . |
| 9 | It was forced to land on the Sedco 700 drilling rig , which is doing work for Shell in the East Shetland Basin . |
| 10 | I was doing veterinary for two years and I wrote away to companies but they just were n't all that keen to ge give girls a chance . |
| 11 | Mark Little is Joe Mangle 's alter ego , the real-life actor who was doing comedy for nearly a decade before Neighbours . |
| 12 | He abused his inheritance , behaved extravagantly , and nearly got his comeuppance from the weasels — a violent proletariat who squatted in his house while he was doing time for car theft . |
| 13 | He was doing time for debt , as I recall . |
| 14 | She was doing time for several rather serious drug-related offences . |
| 15 | Well then , cos he was doing executor for poor old soul poor old and er Ivy used to go and see her pretty frequently , she said do come and see me Mrs ? |