Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 2 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 3 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 4 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 5 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 6 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 8 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 9 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 10 | Nevertheless I would claim that the religious life as a phenomenon has insights which can throw light on the question , because the nuns have been wrestling with it for centuries . |
| 11 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
| 12 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 13 | Any new food regime has to be simple to follow if you are to stick with it for any length of time . |
| 14 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 15 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 16 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 17 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 19 | Lots of people like the poster too , so we 'll be sticking with it for now , and as for the scores … we 'll be done some more reader challenges soon , so liars who can hardly play a game they claim to have mastered will have me to deal with ! |
| 20 | Even where such material is not incorporated by reference apparently reference may still be made to it for contextual or confirmatory purposes . |
| 21 | That was a bit far fetched I suppose but erm you wo n't be looking at it for it is believable or not . |
| 22 | I 'm looking after it for Cherry . |
| 23 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 24 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 25 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 26 | This causes a reaction even after they have been entangled for the rabbits are inclined to bite at the net if they are left within it for too long . |
| 27 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 28 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 29 | She 's been talking about it for ye the past year . |
| 30 | After instruction in the regulations of the ‘ prison ’ the volunteers were placed in it for nearly a week , and their reactions and behaviour observed . |