Example sentences of "doing [pron] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was doing them for him . ’ |
| 2 | This lotus-eating life was doing nothing for her . |
| 3 | he comes round , and just say no , I 'm not doing nothing for you . |
| 4 | And he says , he says er he says I will not move my car and I do n't get told anything , you know , I 'm not doing nothing for you , you do n't belong in this country and all this stuff |
| 5 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 6 | I 'm very willing , but seeing as someone 's doing something for me , I 'm like you sure you do n't mind ? |
| 7 | It 's getting used to thinking that somebody 's doing something for 'em . |
| 8 | And I was in the depot and I and I was er trying to er get some money for , for this thing or , or doing something for it anyway , and this bloke said , said John , he said , what the bloody hell are you got interested in the people of Spain for ? |
| 9 | The right approach might possibly be along the lines of : ‘ How about the family closing ranks and getting together now that you need a little help ? ’ or ‘ Give us the pleasure of doing something for you for a change . ’ |
| 10 | The aim will be fulfilled if the teacher 's aid encourages self-help skills and good personal organisation by the pupil rather than doing everything for him in the way of fetching and returning materials . |
| 11 | The doctors are doing everything for her . ’ |
| 12 | You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her . |
| 13 | Doing it for her when I know I already know it . |
| 14 | Well I 'm not doing it for her , she can do it herself . |
| 15 | You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's doing it for me . |
| 17 | Oh right , right , well I have a lady actually round the corner who 's er in the WRAF and er she 's doing it for me , she 's just on three week 's leave at the moment |
| 18 | Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so |
| 19 | Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so |
| 20 | Others may be doing it for him . |
| 21 | If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him . |
| 22 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 23 | You are doing it for him , are you not ? ’ |
| 24 | People are doing it for him because they loved him very much and he was a very funny guy as well as a kind person . |
| 25 | Well I mean you 're only doing it for him really are n't you , that 's the idea was to help him |
| 26 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 27 | ‘ They are doing it for you and the children. : This must have saved a lot of misery , as she was really listened to . |
| 28 | The back : Naturally , you can not do your own as soothingly as someone else doing it for you . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for you , Pierre . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm doing it for you people so one day you 'll all have what I have . |