Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | He is offering it for airshows next season |
| 3 | He 's spoiling it for others . |
| 4 | But not when he 's taking me for granted . |
| 5 | He 's taking it for the meeting tomorrow . |
| 6 | He 's saving it for his kids , that 's what he says . |
| 7 | Dr. Briant is doing the right thing — doing his own job to the best of his ability and leaving the rest of it to the people he 's doing it for — you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He 's doing it for me . |
| 9 | Never , ’ she defended , then added thoughtfully , ‘ However , if you do get him back to his old city life , you 'll know he 's doing it for you , and you 'll be assured that he really loves you . ’ |
| 10 | He 's doing it for the challenge . |
| 11 | four week course , but he 's running it for two hours for two weeks . |
| 12 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 13 | I 'm in bondage to him to the tune of three hundred guineas which he 's squeezing me for , crushing me to death like a snake its prey . ’ |
| 14 | He 's punishing her for her beauty and what he thought of as her wickedness . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There is a God , and He 's punishing me for our sin , punishing me through Denny . ’ |
| 16 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |
| 17 | ‘ He was inviting us for Sunday lunch tomorrow . |
| 18 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 19 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 20 | Pc Elsegood told Wing he was an off-duty policeman and he was arresting him for assault . |
| 21 | He was teaching us for er physics and er |
| 22 | So he was taking it for granted or or chancing his hand that this Monday for this year was going to be another good day . |
| 23 | Barbara Newington from Connecticut remembered shaking hands effusively with Reagan at the beginning and end of her audience , and each of them saying thank you to the other ; but precisely what she was thanking him for , and what he was thanking her for , neither said . |
| 24 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 25 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 26 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 27 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 28 | He was doing it for Germany . ’ |
| 29 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 30 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |