Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just checking it over for test . |
| 2 | No UK broadcast date has been fixed , but Sky are picking it up for autumn. , In the meantime , Bart is appearing in bootlegged form on American dance flyers and T-shirts everywhere . |
| 3 | For all the kids care he could be Goofy , hamming it up for Mickey Mouse . |
| 4 | Just testing it over for test . |
| 5 | The trouble is he 's wearing it out for Christopher so you wo n't see the new one . |
| 6 | ‘ I also have a green velvet hat , ’ she told him solemnly , holding it up for inspection . |
| 7 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 8 | ‘ Accept the letter then , Miss , ’ the older man insisted , holding it out for Beth to take . |
| 9 | So what 's wrong with puttin' it up for discussion ? ’ |
| 10 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand that I can make no comments about the merits of the proposal which is the subject of our debate or about the case for calling it in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 12 | ‘ I did have my right nipple pierced , but I had to keep taking it out for films , so it kept healing up . |
| 13 | During the late 1920s and early 1930s when John Maynard Keynes ( 1883–1946 ) was working out a new economic system where government intervention would stabilise the negative effects of free enterprise — low investment , acute unemployment — individualist man and collectivist man were fighting it out for supremacy . |
| 14 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
| 15 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 16 | She had been covering it up for years . |
| 17 | They 'll be in action at the Delta Tennis Centre , battling it out for £5,500 in prize money . |