Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [pers pn] for the " 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 I was only doing it for the money . ’
4 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 .
5 This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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