Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe passionately in the future of this industry but what chance have we got when an avaricious few are using it for their own crazy purposes ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 4 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 5 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 6 | In effect we 're we 're erm er we 're safeguarding it for you if you want to . |
| 7 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 8 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 9 | and you 're calling it for ages but you ca n't go near it cos it will run away and it goes like this to you , it goes |
| 10 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 14 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 15 | You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're doing it for your grandfather ? |
| 17 | You 're doing it for charity does it I mean is that |
| 18 | And this year we 're doing it for about half price or something . |
| 19 | We must make very sure we know what we 're doing it for . |
| 20 | We 're doing it for this little orphanage and it 's all terrible exciting . |
| 21 | Is that what they 're doing it for ? |
| 22 | No , cos they 're doing it for all , they 're all doing for all over different places anyway . |
| 23 | You want that 's what you 're doing it for is hopefully so other people 'll appreciate it . |
| 24 | These are the things we 're doing it for . |
| 25 | Yes , I think they tend to say they 're doing it for you . |
| 26 | I mean they 're not doing their own housework or clearing up their own rubbish , they 're doing it for you . |
| 27 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 28 | The only trouble is with that , if you 're changing it for different albums all the time it can wear out the gears and that . |
| 29 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
| 30 | Helen Carson discovers why the sisters are doin' it for themselves Women building on success |