Example sentences of "be do [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 2 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 3 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 4 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 5 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 6 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 7 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 8 | Because I 'll be doing it for the rest of my life now . |
| 9 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 12 | We erm of course , this is besides the ordinary classes that they take erm now I believe there 's doing something for the erm , what was the one I looked at on the board the other day for tracing your ancestors back , you know . |
| 13 | He 's doing it for the challenge . |
| 14 | No well she had this special thing so it 's done the trick so she has n't worn it yet though , I think she 's doing it for the wedding ai n't she ? |
| 15 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 16 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 19 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |