Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't worry , no one is going to ever check up on you , you are only doing it for yourself . |
| 2 | Well I mean you 're only doing it for him really are n't you , that 's the idea was to help him |
| 3 | Well , I 'm only doing it for your own good . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , do n't go on at me , I 'm just telling you for your own sake . |
| 5 | My man will be there to record it for me . |
| 6 | If anything , the big Citroen 's styling leans more towards the quirky camp — there 'll be no mistaking it for anything else on the road , love it or hate it . |
| 7 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 8 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's only telling you for your own good , dear , ’ Emily interposed . |
| 10 | Are you aware she 's only marrying you for your money ? |
| 11 | He 's only doing it for my own good but I still do n't like it . |
| 12 | Has he any idea , she was wondering , that that woman is only marrying him for his money ? |
| 13 | She said , somebody 's always done it for me . |
| 14 | Erm by the land that 's being redistributed , they are actually keeping it for themselves , and that how that they 're |
| 15 | As you yourself so candidly pointed out , she was only marrying me for my money — and , of course , to get out of a fix . ’ |
| 16 | John was just running it for me now so I 'll pick it up on the way home tonight . |
| 17 | Account executives at the insurer , who monitor its agents , had Wright marked down as a man with constant cash flow problems — he was always hassling them for his commission . |
| 18 | I realised that I was still blaming you for what Cherith did to me . |