Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 32 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 33 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 34 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 35 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 36 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 37 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 38 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 39 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 40 | Samuel Pipkin was tensing himself for the coming life and death struggle this evening , when the vital decision would be made by the Prince of Wales , and Mr Thackeray would be avenged . |
| 41 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |