Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Joseph Shill , I am arresting you for the murder of your wife , Maria Shill , at Windsor , on 19th December . ’ |
2 | ‘ Miles Engado , I am arresting you for the — ’ |
3 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
4 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
5 | Should n't I be compensating someone for the loss of the Seren ? ’ |
6 | ‘ Tommy Cook , I 'm arresting you for the murder of Christopher Jabelman … ‘ |
7 | ‘ Iain MacPherson , I 'm arresting you for the … ‘ |
8 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
9 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
10 | It 's all I 'm giving you for the moment : I seem to be embarrassing my client . |
11 | I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them . |
12 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
13 | I 'm preparing myself for the next life . |
14 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
15 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
16 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
17 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
18 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
19 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
20 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
21 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
22 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
23 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
24 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
25 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
26 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
27 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
28 | even though she 's getting it for the technology . |
29 | No well she had this special thing so it 's done the trick so she has n't worn it yet though , I think she 's doing it for the wedding ai n't she ? |
30 | But I mean it 's not just that , she 's killing herself for the job like ! |