Example sentences of "[adv] do [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her action is seen as an irrational or emotional response to a particular situation ; she ‘ only did it for love ’ , for example . |
| 3 | She only did it for fun , he said . |
| 4 | Well perhaps I 'll just do it for Malcolm 's patch . |
| 5 | As I say when you become a councillor you do not do it for money , I mean I think probably to be a better reason to become a councillor these days . |
| 6 | It affects your job , your job prospects , your family life and the hidden costs , such as letters , telephone calls leaflets and the rest of it , you do not do it for money . |
| 7 | I mean , he 's not doing it for money ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not doing it for stardom . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | ‘ They just do it for money . ’ |
| 11 | She 's given up now , she just does it for friends now the you |
| 12 | And they did n't do it for Germany . |
| 13 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 14 | They 've started recently , they d they did n't do it for years , we had n't been training anybody and that was unusual because when it was the big factory you were always bringing in the school leavers |
| 15 | Do n't do it for Friday cos you 'll be out . |
| 16 | Well last night I thought oh I 'd better cut her toenails cos I had n't done them for weeks like . |
| 17 | But if you try and go back to it , when you have n't done it for years , you realize how complicated it was . |
| 18 | No , she di , had n't done it for years ! |
| 19 | This stupid Lee at the moment for his exam , he 's meant to have done it by Christmas and he has n't done it for C D T , and he , they had to just choose something erm to make that actually sort of works , so Lee could n't , I mean they did crane 's and things like that and he could n't , the thing he came up with and he 's teacher was a , a go erm , what was it Dave , a goalie stand in his goal |
| 20 | And if we find it 's a , it 's , it 's er an effective system I think we should then do it for bridges |
| 21 | We have to remember that we are not the only people who take recreation in the countryside ; we share it with others , whose views about disfiguring a crag with bolts and taking a drill there to do it for goodness sake ! may be very different from ours . |
| 22 | I know girls who say , ‘ Oh , I 've never done it for money , but he 'll give me this and that ’ . |
| 23 | Well I am actually , I am actually doing it for interest it 's not gon na be easy mind ya |