Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 32 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 33 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 34 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 35 | It is clear the event has Wilson in its grip , despite his being associated with it for only two years . |
| 36 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
| 37 | If you have forgotten anything , you can always phone whoever has a key to your house or is looking after it for you . |
| 38 | She 's suffered from it for 30 years . |
| 39 | If the description of integrated circuits given earlier is now considered , it can be seen that the requirements are met ; there are two or more layers ( usually three ) , one layer is made of a semiconducting material and a pattern is fixed upon it for the purpose of performing an electronic function . |
| 40 | Even without directly challenging an idea , all one has to do is sit on it for a while , put it in his or her pocket , not respond , find other projects more important — and the change effort will be stalled . |
| 41 | So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part . |
| 42 | He 's been working for it for years . |
| 43 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 44 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 45 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 46 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 47 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 48 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 49 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 50 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |
| 51 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 52 | It must , he thought , have been decades since a fire was lit in it for warmth . |