Example sentences of "be doing for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way might be to raise your hand — a bit more tiring if some are so engaged in their work that they do n't stop what they 're doing for a couple of minutes . |
| 2 | I think the only danger of looking at E D P , is that if we 're doing for the guys in the office , then what do we do with the supervisors ? |
| 3 | I do n't like the advertisements they 're doing for the telephone now though . |
| 4 | to know is they raised er the question about the er counts we 're doing for the Caernarvon link |
| 5 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 6 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 7 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 8 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 10 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 11 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 12 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 13 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 16 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 17 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 18 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 19 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 20 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 21 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 22 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 23 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 24 | ‘ Can you leave what you are doing for a while ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Would you leave off what you are doing for a moment ? |
| 26 | Choose your coach with care ; be sure that they know what they are doing for the theatre and actor of today . |
| 27 | The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well . |
| 28 | er is not a possibility of having more open days so that general public can come in to see what 's happening and not only advertise in Harlow but advertise I live in Bishop 's Stortford now in the surrounding districts erm time gets although you said you get fifty per cent of people coming from outside of Harlow it does n't matter where the people come from as long as they come so more open days free erm to get people to come in and er particularly er outside people also I would suggest that the er chairman 's of the local district council 's who are not contributing be invited to the open day to see what er the playhouse is doing for the people who live in there er council area 's to see whether we can get some more supports er as a Stortford resident I 'd be quite happy to add a bit on my community charge to go to the playhouse . . |
| 29 | She 'll understand your anger and stop what she 's doing for the time being , but that wo n't stop her doing it again when you ca n't see . |
| 30 | WHAT are the local MP 's doing for the people of Northern Ireland of both sides ? |