Example sentences of "do [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 2 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 3 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 4 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 5 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 7 | When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days . |
| 8 | What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use . |
| 9 | There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We did so for the next three years . |
| 13 | Yet the Crown derived little profit from the herds of deer which still remained in some forests : the Forest of Dean , for example , had in 1788 ‘ supplied only Four Bucks and Four Does Annually for the last Seven Years ’ . |