Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it for a " in BNC.

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1 We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers .
2 They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students .
3 Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now .
4 A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’
5 That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer .
6 Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ?
7 that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it .
8 I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while .
9 Well I 've been doing it for a
10 We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside .
11 I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again .
12 The first customers for the new service will be using it for a variety of applications .
13 If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less .
14 I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week ,
15 you know after he gets out from here on a temporary basis sort of thing , so that erm Christopher says he 's gon na be doing it for a year this lecturing , but it 's very nice for him because he 'll be able to contact him and Bob will help him if it 's necessary
16 No , I 'm doing it for A level .
17 No , it 's just Cherry 's I 'm borrowing it for a while .
18 I do n't think we will be needing it for a while . ’
19 Been taking it for a week or so now !
20 And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better .
21 If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped .
22 The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement .
23 Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa .
24 He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend .
25 He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire .
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