Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 2 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 3 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 4 | The only thing on the ground floor that was similar to a dressing-room was a gents ' loo , so we set about disguising its true purpose by dressing it up for the evening . |
| 5 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 6 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |
| 7 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 8 | Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month . |
| 9 | On application they literally digest smells by producing enzymes which attack the source of the odour , breaking it down for the bacteria to absorb . |
| 10 | The shortage of labour forced the landowners to change their methods of exploiting their estates , most obviously in the abandonment of direct cultivation of the demesne by the lord 's paid men in favour of leasing it out for a cash rent . |
| 11 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 12 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 13 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 14 | The classy Irish defender can already picture the season building to a climax with Aston Villa and United slugging it out for the Championship . |
| 15 | Savalas Clouting ( 17 ) , Shaun Tacey ( 18 ) and Laurence Hare ( 23 ) will be fighting it out for a place in the Witches reserve berths after graduating from last season 's double-winning junior side . |
| 16 | The Maritime Museum is fighting it out for the title with the National Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby and the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | The leggy actress has revealed that she now shreds all the rubbish at her Malibu home before putting it out for the dust-men . |
| 18 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 19 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 20 | But Pearce , says : ‘ I just ca n't see him packing it in for a younger man to come in . |
| 21 | ‘ It is n't a question of the Designer working it out for the Director . |
| 22 | It is n't a question of the Director working it out for the Designer . |
| 23 | For the Sunday the pros would be on their own , battling it out for the first prize of £500,000 . |
| 24 | German Shepherds from eight different police forces are battling it out for the title of the best in the west . |