Example sentences of "do [det] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 2 | See well , you could er I still went with the horse and cart down there on a Saturday , take the meat , still the same I done that for a year or two . |
| 3 | Are n't you playing the piano ? shall we get that book that you have , it 's yellow I think it 's down there , we have n't done that for a long time have we , we can do that while daddy and Tim are playing |
| 4 | She 'll do that for a long time , I bet . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've accepted that I can do this for a certain amount of time . |
| 6 | If we could do this for a number of stars in the same galaxy , and our calculations always gave the same distance , we could be fairly confident of our estimate . |
| 7 | you do n't do any for a month or so , you think oh I was bombing through these , now where do how do I get started ? |
| 8 | You 're allowed to do that for a bit , as long as you finally discern that petomania is not a profession . |
| 9 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 10 | Right and I want you to plan to do that for a call tonight in order to what you would say to this sort of person all right ? |
| 11 | It is a good idea to do this for a few more days before the horse travels . |
| 12 | Friends may refrain from expressing any sympathy because they feel that it might be inappropriate and embarrassing for her , and she may be feeling that people will regard her as a hypocrite if she gives way and weeps , although she may need to do this for a variety of reasons , one of them being not so much for what she has lost , but for what she never had . |
| 13 | It was more practicable to do this for a district or industry , since firm-by-firm bargaining was precluded for want of suitable union organisation to bring together all employees at the workplace . |
| 14 | They need to do this for a number of reasons , which include : * identifying the characteristics and attributes of customers and market segments ; * developing and positioning products and services which are appropriate to customer needs and purchasing patterns ; * maximising sales penetration potential through distribution and retail channels ; * focusing the most cost-effective promotional activity ( advertising , exhibitions , sponsorship etc ) as accurately as possible on target market segments . |
| 15 | You did n't need to do this for a laugh ! |
| 16 | He 'll be doing that for a day or two , till I can take over my own wavelength completely . |
| 17 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 18 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 19 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 20 | Oh yeah , I reckon all grannies are gon na be taping this they 're the only with loads of spare time , we 're just doing this for a laugh ! |
| 21 | I did that for a year until the scheme finished . |
| 22 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 23 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 24 | well he did that for a while |
| 25 | And do that for a while as well as some , some voluntary work . |
| 26 | And then do that for a fortnight so she still did n't have any money . |
| 27 | Do this for a few days ( see figure 4 ) . |
| 28 | Comment : Lots of us do this for a living . |
| 29 | I do this for a long time . |
| 30 | Moustaches were allowed , not that they did much for a few who grew them . |