Example sentences of "[was/were] do [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent calculations were done only for the collision of an electron and a positron , a collision common in particle accelerators . |
| 2 | The issue flared up when the party was doing badly for other reasons , and subsided when it was not . |
| 3 | She decided that fingering was doing little for her , except making her more and more randy . |
| 4 | The humiliation of standing beside a woman who smelt , dressed and looked absolutely wonderful was doing little for her ego . |
| 5 | 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 . |