Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) — I am not complaining about him , so I do not apologise for not having given him notice that I should raise the point — uses the crest of the House of Commons on his parliamentary report . |
| 2 | Learning ‘ parrot fashion ’ is adequate in the very short-term but the effects do not last for long . |
| 3 | However , Waddington noted that " the SAP [ South African Police ] is an unaccountable police force " and that the " difficulties encountered " by his inquiry team " suggested [ that ] systems do not exist for either internal or external accountability " . |
| 4 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 5 | Unfortunately fish , like us all , do not live for ever , and some have shorter live spans than others . |
| 6 | From SIDT 's standpoint , official indicators do not count for much . |
| 7 | He usually brings food and stuff , but he do n't stay for long . |
| 8 | Miracles do n't last for long , do they ? |
| 9 | It do n't last for long . |
| 10 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 11 | After all , hinges do n't last for ever and it 's not as if they were trying to cram a bulky parcel through a small space , just a slim package . |
| 12 | What for but do n't get for tomorrow . |
| 13 | [ In talking about continued home care ] I can stand the strain at the moment , but I do n't know for how long I can go on . |
| 14 | No one ever goes on eating anything they do n't like for long . |
| 15 | However , in-flight service and experience do n't count for much if the plane is n't going where you want to be . |
| 16 | Do n't ask for too much , Andrew . |
| 17 | You do n't ask for much , do you , mate ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I do n't ask for very much . ’ |
| 19 | I was gon na ask a favour , if you do n't mind for tonight . |
| 20 | I do n't mind for about two three days |