Example sentences of "doing it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 2 | What you doing it for ? 'Cos let me tell you , the only people who are going to be interested in your bloody research are the authorities . |
| 3 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 5 | Others may be doing it for him . |
| 6 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 7 | Dr. Briant is doing the right thing — doing his own job to the best of his ability and leaving the rest of it to the people he 's doing it for — you . ’ |
| 8 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 9 | He enables us to accept pain and suffering , doing it for Christ 's sake . |
| 10 | They were doing it for Roberto , he was such a lovable character . |
| 11 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 12 | ‘ What are you doing it for ? ’ |
| 13 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 14 | ‘ They are doing it for you and the children. : This must have saved a lot of misery , as she was really listened to . |
| 15 | Doing it for kicks |
| 16 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 17 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 18 | He seemed likely to be doing it for quite some time to come as , rather than actually having an election , it is more a case of finding someone willing to take on the job . |
| 19 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 20 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 21 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't like living like this , but I will be doing it for ever . |
| 23 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 24 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 25 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |
| 27 | Rawlplug fixings : Williams Holdings doing it for themselves |
| 28 | The great spread of drug-taking among the young during this time can also be seen either as ‘ doing it for kicks ’ or looking for a road out of materialistic culture . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 30 | I 've been doing it for years . |