Example sentences of "[adv] do it 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 was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Just doing it for the week . |
| 12 | Jon sees the key to it all as simply getting out and having a good time : ‘ I just do it for a laugh , basically . |
| 13 | I just did it for a laugh . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ No I do n't do it for the money really . |
| 22 | ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it . |
| 23 | You certainly did n't do it for the money . |
| 24 | I said well in all fairness Paul , you ai n't actually bloody got , I said I do n't do it for the fun of it I said and I do n't like doing it but I see , he just sort of |
| 25 | We have n't done it for a while . |
| 26 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 27 | I mean I ai n't doing it for a whole week . |