Example sentences of "[verb] do for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean fifteen hours in in a week is not much at all when you consider how much you 're expected to do for a degree |
| 2 | Well I think she 's done all she needs to do for a little while . |
| 3 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 4 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 5 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 6 | ‘ What are we going to do for a horse for you ? ’ |
| 7 | Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year . |
| 8 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 10 | In 1340 the king conceded that parliament should have the right to grant the maltote , which it proceeded to do for a period of fifteen months . |
| 11 | Well he it wo n't it wo n't get done for a couple of weeks ' time then you 'll say |
| 12 | I 'll see that bugger tomorrow mornin' if I have to get up at five , an , I 'll tell him what I 've meant to do for a long time ; I 'll take the can along to the authorities . |
| 13 | ‘ That was the hardest training I 've done for a year , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 15 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 16 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 17 | Newton did n't have to be a scientist either to realise what his two goals had done for a Chelsea side which played with impressive self belief considering its young personnel . |
| 18 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 19 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 20 | The 5Os was a time when the hatred , fears and austerities of wartime Europe were still in recent collective memory , as were the two ounces of mildewy cheese that had to do for a whole week 's ration in those blackout , blitz and Mother Hubbard 's cupboard days of the previous decade . |
| 21 | ‘ None of the things you have done for a start . ’ |
| 22 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 23 | ‘ I never knew what I wanted to do for a living . |
| 24 | ‘ I remember just before Steve Jones had his big breakthrough in Chicago 1984 , Alan said half-jokingly that all you have to do for a marathon is overtrain at 10,000m . |