Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 2 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |
| 3 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 4 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 5 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 6 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 7 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 8 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 9 | Robert Sheldrake was taking it for granted that the only threat to his practice was that of two small-animal vets , and even that was sufficient for him to be rather unpleasant . |