Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] do it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well I think it 's only if you want to do er you know like doing it for some , something or other is n't it ? |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 5 | ‘ What 'ave you got ter do it for ? |
| 6 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And they did n't do it for Germany . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | You certainly did n't do it for the money . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I did n't do it for me ! ’ he exclaimed . |
| 14 | ‘ You did n't do it for me ! |
| 15 | , well I did n't , I did n't do it for her |
| 16 | ‘ No I do n't do it for the money really . |
| 17 | I think I ought to keep the house clean , but I do n't do it for my husband — because quite honestly he does n't notice whether it 's clean or not . |
| 18 | I do n't do it for you . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't do it for any reason of self . ’ |
| 20 | It feels like whoring sometimes , only I do n't do it for myself , except once or twice to save my life . ’ |
| 21 | Right , but please do n't do it for at least three months . |
| 22 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | , well the job 's worth more than ninety quid , I said , I do n't do it for ninety quid ! |
| 25 | Do n't do it for Friday cos you 'll be out . |
| 26 | We do n't do it for any other section of society , and these people are not poor . |
| 27 | you 've just done it for there . |
| 28 | Yes , but I did it for him fo , I I 've already done it for him once , I picked up exactly what he wanted , I delivered it to him and now he 's changed his mind and but I 'm not in the business to supply things , I 'm not a supp shop ! |
| 29 | No , she di , had n't done it for years ! |
| 30 | Just file it under ‘ Does n't Do It For Me ’ . |