Example sentences of "do [det] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my family done that for four generations . |
| 2 | The problem of the assault course of whether she 's actually fitted in in three months , anyhow that 's what we ought to write that in , but er , she travels , she travels most weekends playing hockey for Yorkshire , and has done that for four years , and she 's all over , where were you ? , |
| 3 | I have n't done that for two years . |
| 4 | I travelled all so all this , Jim that 's alive now I done that for two years . |
| 5 | So he 's done that for five minutes there . |
| 6 | And then , before that , if you if you was to make the mealy puddings the it that always had to be cut into bits and emptied and washed well in cold water , and with salt and that , and that was They would done that for three days before they were then filled up to make the mealy puddings . |
| 7 | Oh yes , there is I mean obviously we do n't do that for seventy pounds because we could n't obviously . |
| 8 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 9 | They have not done this for one simple reason : the unions know the truth about the SDLP and they would quickly tell them where to put their advice . |
| 10 | I shall not do this for two related reasons . |
| 11 | It is not possible to personally do this for 45 Area Secretaries monthly , so the new Monthly Report is dealt with as follows : |
| 12 | I 've been offered a lot of commissions but I have n't done any for two years . |
| 13 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 14 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 15 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 16 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 17 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 18 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 19 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 20 | And then you see the the council I did that for nineteen years . |
| 21 | I did that for 18 months , leaving Safferys at seven and not getting home until midnight . |
| 22 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 23 | But what was striking about the three-year-old 's behaviour here was that they did this for twenty trials . |
| 24 | You do this for two reasons . |
| 25 | Do this for three days in succession and you will be able to make up your own mind whether it works or not . |