Example sentences of "[be] do it for [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her .
2 Yes , I think they tend to say they 're doing it for you .
3 I mean they 're not doing their own housework or clearing up their own rubbish , they 're doing it for you .
4 You are doing it for him , are you not ? ’
5 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 .
6 ‘ They are doing it for you and the children. : This must have saved a lot of misery , as she was really listened to .
7 Others may be doing it for him .
8 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 .
9 I would only be doing it for you ! ’
10 ‘ I 'm doing it for you people so one day you 'll all have what I have .
11 I 'm doing it for you .
12 I 'm doing it for you .
13 ‘ He 's doing it for me .
14 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
15 Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so
16 Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so
17 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 . ’
18 But now the passage of the years was doing it for him .
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