Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 2 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 3 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 4 | You suggest he was secretly testing it for work on the Antarctic land mass , flying it south over the pack ice . |
| 5 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , but that was when I was only pumping you for information , not giving it to you . |
| 8 | As you yourself so candidly pointed out , she was only marrying me for my money — and , of course , to get out of a fix . ’ |
| 9 | Lydia watched it , thinking that they had much in common except that she had her prey in her grasp and was already preparing it for consumption . |
| 10 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 11 | Quietly sipping champagne in a corner of the large marquee , Laura was just chiding herself for having over-reacted in such a feeble , juvenile way towards a man who could n't possibly be interested in her , when she looked up — and suddenly found Ross standing in front of her ! |
| 12 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 13 | John was just running it for me now so I 'll pick it up on the way home tonight . |
| 14 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 15 | He was usually decrying her for displaying that vice . |
| 16 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 17 | Account executives at the insurer , who monitor its agents , had Wright marked down as a man with constant cash flow problems — he was always hassling them for his commission . |
| 18 | I realised that I was still blaming you for what Cherith did to me . |
| 19 | At 45 Mainwaring Road the upper maisonette was still advertising itself for sale — no less than six boards competing for the passerby 's attention . |
| 20 | Benny was about to ask why , but before she could , Ace had produced her blaster and was busily setting it for a narrow beam to cut through the door . |
| 21 | She knew he had killed one of her countrymen the previous evening , and she supposed he was now preparing himself for all the others he would fight . |
| 22 | Tim Waterstone declined to expound on the decision , beyond saying that Waterstones had withdrawn from the concession for commercial reasons and was now re-entering it for commercial reasons . |
| 23 | Dane was either unaware of her stunned reaction , or else was simply taking it for granted , she thought irritably . |
| 24 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 25 | She seemed to accept Neil 's presents as her right and , what 's more , was increasingly taking it for granted they would be expensive . |
| 26 | Her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head , but there was no mistaking her for Han . |