Example sentences of "he was [verb] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't quite sure what he was summing her up for but he was certainly doing that . |
| 2 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 3 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 4 | I thought he was taking her away for ever . |
| 5 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 7 | He was doing it specially for them . |
| 8 | Make borrowing fair and honest ; bring bargaining between borrower and lender out into the open , with the borrower being given the opportunity to understand precisely what he was letting himself in for , and in that knowledge to make his choice . |