Example sentences of "[adv] doing [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
4 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
5 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
6 | But it 's not doing it at the moment , although there 's |
7 | You 're not doing it at the party ? |
8 | Ah , erm , but , do you think that , sorry , do you think the appraisal itself , because it 's an annual event , er , some branch managers will get to you with what turns out to be the performance review , and therefore , not doing it during the year , because of the appraisal ? |
9 | Oh bugger me I 'm , there 's no way I 'm not doing it by the books |
10 | Erm you 're now you 're not doing anything at the moment , we we agreed it was resting . |
11 | Oh she 's erm , she 's not doing anything at the moment because erm |
12 | I 'm just doing something at the moment |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Just doing it for the week . |
16 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
17 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
18 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
19 | Now doing it outside the parameters of 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon is equally and probably more important . |
20 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
21 | When he wrenched his back he was n't doing anything in the house , when he wrenched his back all he was doing was lifting the carton of the back seat of the car . |
22 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |