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
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