Example sentences of "doing it for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division .
2 Strong opposition to such Assemblies was silenced by a very modern excuse — they were doing it for Charity .
3 You 're doing it for charity does it I mean is that
4 Doing it for charity or
5 They were doing it for Roberto , he was such a lovable character .
6 The men slope off , looking ashamed of themselves ( doing it for money like that ) .
7 Only the jobless or even married women and working girls who are doing it for money ? ’
8 I mean , he 's not doing it for money ? ’
9 If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it .
10 With modern-day technology it is getting harder to achieve all the time , but there is one common denominator in the case of Eric Liddell and Allan Wells , and that is the fierce determination to win and the intense pride of doing it for Scotland .
11 He was doing it for Germany . ’
12 Or he may know exactly what he 's doing — and be doing it for reasons his companions know nothing of , his meaning anything but benevolent .
13 She was doing it for fun , a one-off comeback to the sport she had come to despise and walked out of five years ago .
14 I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke .
15 But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk .
16 The real enthusiast has been doing it for years .
17 Women have been doing it for years .
18 I 've been doing it for years .
19 Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years .
20 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 .
21 I could see meself doing it for years , like .
22 I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know .
23 He 's been doing it for years .
24 ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’
25 He 's been doing it for years .
26 And listening to the people who 've been doing it for years .
27 I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it .
28 Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up .
29 He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king
30 But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself .
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