Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | showing us that Pip is entering the cold , real world and has left the warmth of Joe 's forge and his chance for contentment , trading it for social status . |
| 2 | Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on . |
| 3 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 4 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 5 | This method is the first of its kind , and the ministry is considering developing it for commercial application . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 7 | Now , though , comes the word that Confederacy is being developed by Ivan Reitman — coming up soon in Ghostbusters II , which he also wrote — and if all goes well , he will be directing it for 20th Century Fox . |
| 8 | Security was tight at yesterday 's ceremony , with press photographs banned and a single TV cameraman shepherded around by two naval security officers , who had to view his film before releasing it for public consumption . |
| 9 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 10 | in helpless hands , holding it for dear life , |
| 11 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 12 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 13 | Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now . |
| 14 | I goes er , oh I 'm recording it for this thing , she goes oh yeah my beard , ha , I was going I am , ha , but she did n't believe me , can I have some sauce please ? |
| 15 | I goes er oh , I 'm recording it for this thing and she goes , oh yeah my big head ! |
| 16 | ‘ Course he will , ’ Joe snapped , ‘ bin doin it for twenty year . |
| 17 | During periods of anaerobic carbohydrate metabolism , the worms may also excrete pyruvic acid rather than retaining it for future oxidation when aerobic metabolism is possible . |
| 18 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 19 | I suppose I 'm going to do , that while I 'm doing it for each course , |
| 20 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 21 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 22 | I said no , I 'm not , I 'm not doing it for that reason I said I 'm trying to you know thought to myself we 'll give them something back . |
| 23 | And then next week I must order some more coal for but erm , I 've got ta go outside here so no good doing it for this week is it ? |
| 24 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 25 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 26 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 27 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 29 | Their two-year project initially involves the implementation of software on a massively parallel Single Instruction , Multiple Data system , with a view to converting it for Multiple Instruction , Multiple Data systems at a later date . |
| 30 | the pool with blood , staining it for all time , |