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 . |