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

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1 You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her .
2 You an me , the artists , we 're doing it for no-one 's eyes but our own , are n't we ? but while fundamental , as far as the book 's concerned , this is a minor point .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 ‘ You 're doing it for your grandfather ?
5 Yes , I think they tend to say they 're doing it for you .
6 I mean they 're not doing their own housework or clearing up their own rubbish , they 're doing it for you .
7 You are doing it for him , are you not ? ’
8 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 .
9 ‘ They are doing it for you and the children. : This must have saved a lot of misery , as she was really listened to .
10 Others may be doing it for him .
11 this time next year , yes I think we 'll be doing it for everything .
12 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 .
13 I would only be doing it for you ! ’
14 ‘ I 'm doing it for you people so one day you 'll all have what I have .
15 I 'm doing it for you .
16 I 'm doing it for you .
17 ‘ He 's doing it for me .
18 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
19 Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so
20 Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so
21 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 . ’
22 But now the passage of the years was doing it for him .
23 Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway .
24 But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey .
25 But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie .
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