Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , last year , we were given it for free , erm |
| 2 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 3 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 4 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 5 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 8 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 9 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 10 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 11 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 12 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |