Example sentences of "be do so for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 2 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 3 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 4 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 5 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 6 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 7 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 8 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 9 | And it is a good thing that someone sensible should be doing so for the subject has got into the hands of theorists of the most tiresome sort . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 12 | There was a tricky thing called the seminally defiled state , and you had to make sure that when your old lady left the house she was doing so for a specific purpose , but on the whole even Marwan was pretty laissez-faire about a girl and a boy talking about subjects of mutual interest . |