Example sentences of "[adv] do [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 2 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 3 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 4 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 5 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 7 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 8 | Just doing it for the week . |
| 9 | Th we must be able to learn from this period , particularly a partial austerity mm but these events are sound events in themselves and that we 're not just doing it for the sake of the sponsor or attracting a sponsor and that it 's not , in itself , completely necessary to have a sponsor otherwise the competition would n't exist . |
| 10 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 11 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
| 12 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 13 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 14 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 15 | ‘ No I do n't do it for the money really . |
| 16 | You certainly did n't do it for the money . |
| 17 | I said well in all fairness Paul , you ai n't actually bloody got , I said I do n't do it for the fun of it I said and I do n't like doing it but I see , he just sort of |
| 18 | ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it . |
| 19 | Presumably they 'd never done anyone for the job . |
| 20 | Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people . |