Example sentences of "[be] do [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 2 | But if you 're doing something for 7,000 , the costs will be more per person per day . |
| 3 | It helps our children to know that they 're doing something for those children . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 6 | You an me , the artists , we 're doing it for no-one 's eyes but our own , are n't we ? but while fundamental , as far as the book 's concerned , this is a minor point . |
| 7 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 8 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 9 | You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're doing it for your grandfather ? |
| 11 | You 're doing it for charity does it I mean is that |
| 12 | And this year we 're doing it for about half price or something . |
| 13 | We must make very sure we know what we 're doing it for . |
| 14 | We 're doing it for this little orphanage and it 's all terrible exciting . |
| 15 | Is that what they 're doing it for ? |
| 16 | No , cos they 're doing it for all , they 're all doing for all over different places anyway . |
| 17 | You want that 's what you 're doing it for is hopefully so other people 'll appreciate it . |
| 18 | These are the things we 're doing it for . |
| 19 | Yes , I think they tend to say they 're doing it for you . |
| 20 | I mean they 're not doing their own housework or clearing up their own rubbish , they 're doing it for you . |
| 21 | You know , but there not , there lovely , lovely people and they 're do anything for you , but we say to them , you know , oh well life 's boring and your know sort of , and , but , life has n't got to be boring , when you 've got no money wor worries life should n't be boring . |
| 22 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 24 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 25 | Part of , part of the furniture , yes what do you want , there 's no problem with parcels , and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm , a business conversation , and sometimes it 's a conversation about football , and they 're all a load of complete , because that 's part of , er , that 's one of the joys of er , er , having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the , within the patch . |
| 26 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 27 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 28 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 29 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 30 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |