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 . |