Example sentences of "[vb base] do for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 4 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 5 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 6 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 7 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 8 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 9 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 10 | Anything else we have to do for the open day ? |