Example sentences of "be [verb] in it for " in BNC.

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1 They had been living in it for years .
2 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 .
3 After instruction in the regulations of the ‘ prison ’ the volunteers were placed in it for nearly a week , and their reactions and behaviour observed .
4 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 .
5 It must , he thought , have been decades since a fire was lit in it for warmth .
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