Example sentences of "be doing it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 3 | You an me , the artists , we 're doing it for no-one 's eyes but our own , are n't we ? but while fundamental , as far as the book 's concerned , this is a minor point . |
| 4 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 5 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 6 | You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're doing it for your grandfather ? |
| 8 | You 're doing it for charity does it I mean is that |
| 9 | And this year we 're doing it for about half price or something . |
| 10 | We must make very sure we know what we 're doing it for . |
| 11 | We 're doing it for this little orphanage and it 's all terrible exciting . |
| 12 | Is that what they 're doing it for ? |
| 13 | No , cos they 're doing it for all , they 're all doing for all over different places anyway . |
| 14 | You want that 's what you 're doing it for is hopefully so other people 'll appreciate it . |
| 15 | These are the things we 're doing it for . |
| 16 | Yes , I think they tend to say they 're doing it for you . |
| 17 | I mean they 're not doing their own housework or clearing up their own rubbish , they 're doing it for you . |
| 18 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 20 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 21 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 22 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 23 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 24 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 25 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 26 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 27 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 28 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 29 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 30 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |