Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be doing for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's what men have been doing for centuries . ’ |
| 4 | That kind of riding is what horses have been doing for centuries . |
| 5 | In the mid-1980s the Uighur students called for independence from China , as the Tibetans have been doing for decades . |