Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |