Example sentences of "[v-ing] for it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 2 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 4 | Paul speaks of suing for it before the praetor fideicommissarius . |
| 5 | And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre . |
| 6 | Well they 're actually paying for it on the erm |
| 7 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 8 | I have in fact si since seeing this sent her a copy of the paper I put to this meeting , erm , having seen that , because I did n't know that she was waiting for it to the commentary with . |
| 9 | The librarian handed it to Roland Michell , who was sitting waiting for it in the Reading Room of the London Library . |
| 10 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |
| 11 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
| 12 | To and fro , weaving , sometimes tied back to the point , moving from point to point , guided by Jennifer , each woman deeply involved with the dual effort of formulating an opinion and arguing for it at the same time . |
| 13 | He did , indeed , have a marked preference for a monarchy , arguing for it as the ‘ most commodious government ’ . |
| 14 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 15 | In Indonesia , for example the US-owned oil company Caltex had some 10,000 people working for it by the beginning of the 1980s . |