Example sentences of "for doing " in BNC.

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1 For let me tell you something : I 've respected myself far more for doing cleaning jobs well than for doing teaching jobs badly — and it is entirely appropriate that I should do so .
2 For let me tell you something : I 've respected myself far more for doing cleaning jobs well than for doing teaching jobs badly — and it is entirely appropriate that I should do so .
3 Why Martha transferred the money before she put her apron on I do n't know — I suppose it 's just that everyone has their own little routines for doing things .
4 Other aspects of his answers are equally interesting : he admits to not having won any prizes or scholarships , having apparently settled for doing what was required — that , and no more !
5 The major means for doing this is to encourage doctors and health authorities to seek care where it can mostly cheaply and efficiently be provided .
6 Frank Kermode in The Genesis of Secrecy seemed to be engaging in a severance of world and word , and was called to account by Helen Gardner for doing so .
7 ‘ There will be a few candidates for doing the same thing in this part of the world if he gets away with it , ’ one Welsh international said , ‘ and I for one will be very interested to see how it develops .
8 Liberty is proposing regulations , including a rule requiring anyone installing cameras to supply the authorities with valid reasons for doing so .
9 That 's one thing , at least the Provies give us credit for doing this job .
10 The employers acknowledged that management should accept responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce them .
11 First then the proposition that management should accept a responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or to reduce them .
12 This is a yearning which mankind insists shall be fulfilled and it has a specialised organ for doing this .
13 Again , Eliot found artistic incitements for doing this .
14 It would be better for doing it this way .
15 Drivers are professionals who are employed to race where their teams compete and I do n't think they would be penalised for doing their jobs . ’
16 And Mum 's always telling me off for doing things wrong .
17 So it is most important to standardize your own frame of mind and the conditions for doing the tests .
18 He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn .
19 He shook his head and beckoned at the same time , feeling an unutterable fool for doing so .
20 ‘ We are satisfied that [ Ms Pledger ] is no longer in the food trade and putting customers at risk , which after all , is our priority reason for doing this work , ’ he said .
21 Some 84 organisations took part ( our thanks to Stephanie O'Keefe for doing our display ) and about £900 was raised for Christian Aid , as compared to £661 last year .
22 They will also have to decide what IPC means in practice for the 3500-odd industrial processes under their control and as yet have set no timetable for doing so .
23 It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station .
24 The MacMahon Act only reinforced his reasons for doing so .
25 I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East .
26 He adds that the MacSharry approach would penalise efficiency and preserve allotment-sized farms , and that farmers should receive grants for doing desirable things , not just for having small plots .
27 There is some case for doing this , particularly now that Whitehall is laying down a core curriculum for all schools .
28 ‘ A lot of thanks I get for doing a good deed , ’ she said .
29 He 's got two thirds of a bloody great American salary four times greater than mine for doing similar work .
30 I admired them for doing openly what many women do in secret or under the respectable cover of marriage .
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