Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] for it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 2 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 3 | Although I ca n't actually recall being prepared for it by my mother , it was only too obvious even to a child of seven years that something was pretty seriously wrong . |
| 4 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 5 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 6 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 8 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 9 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 10 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 11 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 12 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 13 | He 's been working for it for years . |