Example sentences of "[pron] was doing [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 2 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 3 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 4 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 5 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 6 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 7 | She was doing them for him . ’ |
| 8 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 9 | For the first time in her life she was doing something for herself ; doing it without help from anyone , and what was more , she was getting it right . |
| 10 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 11 | She was doing it for fun , a one-off comeback to the sport she had come to despise and walked out of five years ago . |
| 12 | And yet all her hard work has never been appreciated by those she was doing it for , her stepchildren . |
| 13 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 14 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 15 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 16 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 17 | He was doing it for Germany . ’ |