Example sentences of "doing for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose your coach with care ; be sure that they know what they are doing for the theatre and actor of today . |
| 2 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 4 | er is not a possibility of having more open days so that general public can come in to see what 's happening and not only advertise in Harlow but advertise I live in Bishop 's Stortford now in the surrounding districts erm time gets although you said you get fifty per cent of people coming from outside of Harlow it does n't matter where the people come from as long as they come so more open days free erm to get people to come in and er particularly er outside people also I would suggest that the er chairman 's of the local district council 's who are not contributing be invited to the open day to see what er the playhouse is doing for the people who live in there er council area 's to see whether we can get some more supports er as a Stortford resident I 'd be quite happy to add a bit on my community charge to go to the playhouse . . |
| 5 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 6 | What are you doing for the environment ? |
| 7 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 8 | I think the only danger of looking at E D P , is that if we 're doing for the guys in the office , then what do we do with the supervisors ? |
| 9 | Well you need to sit and be quite with the Lord as to keep doing for the Lord . |
| 10 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She 'll understand your anger and stop what she 's doing for the time being , but that wo n't stop her doing it again when you ca n't see . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 14 | Finally I went to James Roose-Evans , who 'd adapted 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and said , ‘ What are you doing for the rest of your life ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 19 | What they doing for the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 20 | The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well . |
| 21 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 22 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 23 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 24 | WHAT are the local MP 's doing for the people of Northern Ireland of both sides ? |
| 25 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 26 | I do n't like the advertisements they 're doing for the telephone now though . |
| 27 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 28 | to know is they raised er the question about the er counts we 're doing for the Caernarvon link |
| 29 | Here , do you know what she 's doing for the Body Shop now ? |
| 30 | that 's right because they 've just released papers after thirty years of work that he was doing for the M O D he was actually doing it in his role as a member of the P R flight , Beaver Brooke sold the government this idea |