Example sentences of "[been] do for the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Much of this work has been done for the larger national and international companies . |
2 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
3 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
4 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
5 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
6 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
7 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
8 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
9 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
10 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
11 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
12 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
13 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
14 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
15 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |