Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am not saving it for the Tour de France .
2 Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ?
3 and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going .
4 ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob .
5 We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it .
6 ‘ We 've got the school Nativity play , ’ said George , ‘ and Miss Thorne is already producing something for the Women 's Guild . ’
7 However , Visionware is also priming itself for the opening of its US office in California on July 1 .
8 I was only doing it for the money . ’
9 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 .
10 This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer .
11 And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life .
12 Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’
13 er my Lord it was n't , I was n't raising it for the purpose of your Lordship mentioned , er namely er er about er contingency fund , though indeed will be entitled to that , I raised a question of the minute , the board minute , to do with the concerned with Mr rest of the meeting about the placement
14 I got to admit I did n't pop over just to offer yer some neighbourly 'elp , it was on me mind while I was there to touch you for the loan of a bob .
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