Example sentences of "[adv] do it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 2 | The original American legislation was only for women , and they made in fact some very erm convoluted and not very satisfactory arguments about why they should only do it for women . |
| 3 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 4 | What are they all doing it for ? |
| 5 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 6 | Do n't worry , no one is going to ever check up on you , you are only doing it for yourself . |
| 7 | We 're only doing it for and . |
| 8 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 9 | Well , I 'm only doing it for your own good . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 12 | Well I mean you 're only doing it for him really are n't you , that 's the idea was to help him |
| 13 | He 's only doing it for my own good but I still do n't like it . |
| 14 | Her action is seen as an irrational or emotional response to a particular situation ; she ‘ only did it for love ’ , for example . |
| 15 | She only did it for fun , he said . |
| 16 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 17 | in the canteen but I ca ca n't take that into the factory Only do it for a week , you 've spilt that , Helen ! |
| 18 | If you were the last woman left alive on this bloody earth , I think I 'd rather do it for myself . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't exactly do it for nothing , ’ Nelson said . |
| 20 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 21 | you 've just done it for there . |
| 22 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 23 | I know that , but I 'll just do it for you . |
| 24 | Well perhaps I 'll just do it for Malcolm 's patch . |
| 25 | Yes , but I did it for him fo , I I 've already done it for him once , I picked up exactly what he wanted , I delivered it to him and now he 's changed his mind and but I 'm not in the business to supply things , I 'm not a supp shop ! |
| 26 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 27 | Th we must be able to learn from this period , particularly a partial austerity mm but these events are sound events in themselves and that we 're not just doing it for the sake of the sponsor or attracting a sponsor and that it 's not , in itself , completely necessary to have a sponsor otherwise the competition would n't exist . |
| 28 | He was n't just doing it for himself any more . ’ |
| 29 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 30 | Yeah and you wo n't if , do you , wo n't have to tell 'em what you 're getting for doing it , you 're just , you 're just doing it for interest so to speak |