Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 2 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 3 | Other negatives were Gareth Burnells 's ‘ No , mate , I do n't think there 's any particular dispute over this stretch of the Derwent , ’ and Neil Newton Taylor 's ‘ No , we 're just taking them for a walk' ’ on a picture postcard of Cauldron Snout . |
| 4 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 5 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 8 | Benny was about to ask why , but before she could , Ace had produced her blaster and was busily setting it for a narrow beam to cut through the door . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |