Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] it for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
2 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
3 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
4 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
5 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
6 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
7 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
8 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
9 | If the description of integrated circuits given earlier is now considered , it can be seen that the requirements are met ; there are two or more layers ( usually three ) , one layer is made of a semiconducting material and a pattern is fixed upon it for the purpose of performing an electronic function . |
10 | Even without directly challenging an idea , all one has to do is sit on it for a while , put it in his or her pocket , not respond , find other projects more important — and the change effort will be stalled . |
11 | So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part . |
12 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |