Example sentences of "[v-ing] so for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I know at last erm , budget meeting we talked about doing so for the entire health survey , because really the amount of money spent on sickness is quite astronomical , and one does need to look at this when you 're having to meet your budget . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Probyn , 37 next March , has seen them all off and fully intends to continue doing so for the foreseeable future . |