Example sentences of "be [v-ing] it for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 2 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 3 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 4 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 5 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 7 | Now , though , comes the word that Confederacy is being developed by Ivan Reitman — coming up soon in Ghostbusters II , which he also wrote — and if all goes well , he will be directing it for 20th Century Fox . |
| 8 | I goes er , oh I 'm recording it for this thing , she goes oh yeah my beard , ha , I was going I am , ha , but she did n't believe me , can I have some sauce please ? |
| 9 | I goes er oh , I 'm recording it for this thing and she goes , oh yeah my big head ! |
| 10 | I suppose I 'm going to do , that while I 'm doing it for each course , |
| 11 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 12 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 13 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 14 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 15 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |