Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [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 Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ .
30 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 ?
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