Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 2 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 4 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 5 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 6 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 7 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
| 8 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 9 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 10 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 11 | Because I 'll be doing it for the rest of my life now . |
| 12 | I 'll be needing it for the rest of the day , ’ Bishop said . |
| 13 | Amid the disillusionment felt by some , that the minority of farmers are spoiling it for the rest in not keeping the environment clean , one manufacturer at least , hopes not dampened by the weather , felt there was room for optimism . |
| 14 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 15 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 16 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 17 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 18 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 19 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 20 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 21 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 22 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 24 | O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night . |
| 25 | even though she 's getting it for the technology . |
| 26 | He 's doing it for the challenge . |
| 27 | No well she had this special thing so it 's done the trick so she has n't worn it yet though , I think she 's doing it for the wedding ai n't she ? |
| 28 | He 's taking it for the meeting tomorrow . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |