Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] it for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect we 're we 're erm er we 're safeguarding it for you if you want to . |
| 2 | You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her . |
| 3 | Yes , I think they tend to say they 're doing it for you . |
| 4 | I mean they 're not doing their own housework or clearing up their own rubbish , they 're doing it for you . |
| 5 | You are doing it for him , are you not ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ They are doing it for you and the children. : This must have saved a lot of misery , as she was really listened to . |
| 8 | We have n't eaten it I 'm bringing it for you . |
| 9 | I 'm keeping it for him , like . |
| 10 | — But do n't take off , mind , while I 'm getting it for you ! ’ |
| 11 | I 'm holding it for you — ’ |
| 12 | Others may be doing it for him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I would only be doing it for you ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm doing it for you people so one day you 'll all have what I have . |
| 16 | I 'm doing it for you . |
| 17 | I 'm doing it for you . |
| 18 | because But then I thought then I thought well I 'll Here 's Rachel do you want to and then like it 's be like Oh I 'm spoiling it for him . |
| 19 | I 'm earning it for her . |
| 20 | I 'm earning it for her , that 's not fair . |
| 21 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 22 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
| 23 | Or , rather somebody 's signing it for him . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's doing it for me . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so |
| 27 | Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | She 's investing it for her . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |