Example sentences of "be [v-ing] something for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 2 | You sign this piece of paper , you feel as if you 're scrounging , you 're getting something for nothing . |
| 3 | But if you 're doing something for 7,000 , the costs will be more per person per day . |
| 4 | It helps our children to know that they 're doing something for those children . |
| 5 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 6 | Part of , part of the furniture , yes what do you want , there 's no problem with parcels , and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm , a business conversation , and sometimes it 's a conversation about football , and they 're all a load of complete , because that 's part of , er , that 's one of the joys of er , er , having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the , within the patch . |
| 7 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 8 | As one church planter has said : ‘ When Jesus comes back , I want to be doing something for God , even if it 's only making mistakes . ’ |
| 9 | She told herself , it would not really be doing something for Andrée if it did not come hard . |
| 10 | Well , he 's going to do something for the programme and I 'm doing something for TSB . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I am preparing something for my daughter 's lunch . |
| 13 | Indeed , a recurrent theme among these women was that they felt they had no right to benefit , that they were getting something for nothing , in marked contrast to a wage . |
| 14 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's getting used to thinking that somebody 's doing something for 'em . |
| 17 | I 'm very willing , but seeing as someone 's doing something for me , I 'm like you sure you do n't mind ? |
| 18 | I can remember that so vividly and it 's still going today so that 's saying something for British Steel erm it was local , you know the erm the one at er |
| 19 | The mother was knitting something for seamen from coloured string . |
| 20 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 21 | For the first time in her life she was doing something for herself ; doing it without help from anyone , and what was more , she was getting it right . |
| 22 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |
| 23 | A man was preparing something for supper at a table . |
| 24 | Instinct told her that he was planning something for her and it might not be to her liking . |