Example sentences of "[verb] be doing [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 2 | She decided that fingering was doing little for her , except making her more and more randy . |
| 3 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 4 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 5 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 6 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 7 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 8 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 9 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 10 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 13 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 14 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |