Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
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 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
5 | 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 |
6 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
7 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
8 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |