Example sentences of "[adv] do [pron] for [art] " 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 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 3 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Just doing it for the week . |
| 13 | Jon sees the key to it all as simply getting out and having a good time : ‘ I just do it for a laugh , basically . |
| 14 | I just did it for a laugh . |
| 15 | No I just did it for a laugh cos I want , I want everyone to know the most interesting language in the world which is part of my language is n't it ? |
| 16 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 17 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 18 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 19 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't do anything for a while , not even put on a pair of trainers . |
| 23 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year because nothing was built , ’ she says . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year to see what would come up , and we had constant , wonderful surprises . |
| 25 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 26 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 27 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
| 28 | I think the only other way of doing it is n't it is to say we wo n't do it for every course initially . |
| 29 | ‘ No I do n't do it for the money really . |
| 30 | ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it . |