Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , some of his more publicised swimming feats were done for cash , and include swims that the majority of exceptional swimmers would baulk at . |
| 2 | Concentrated work was done for Guy 's pelvis and foot , to improve his standing balance . |
| 3 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 4 | All his surviving work was done for religious houses in the south-west . |
| 5 | The assay was done for 30 min in the presence of either 0.1μM free Ca 2+ and 0.9mM sodium deoxycholate ( + ) , or 10μM free Ca 2+ and 3.4mM sodium deoxycholate ( ++ ) . |
| 6 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 7 | After 1832 , after Reform , in Britain revolution was done for . |
| 8 | Normally , the first trade was done for about £2,000 . |
| 9 | The Staff thought the Manager was done for . |
| 10 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 11 | Empress Software claims to have the first RDBMS and 4GL running on MACH on a 486 : The port was done for TRW Financial Systems which is standardising on MACH . |
| 12 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 13 | But the afternoon was done for . |
| 14 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 15 | At the same school filming was done for Frank 's less auspicious performance . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , his calf muscle was done for and he had to be substituted by the senior linesman . |