Example sentences of "be [verb] it [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 2 | No UK broadcast date has been fixed , but Sky are picking it up for autumn. , In the meantime , Bart is appearing in bootlegged form on American dance flyers and T-shirts everywhere . |
| 3 | Equally , the couple may not be able to ask the parents for a hand-out if they 're doing it largely for their own satisfaction . |
| 4 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 5 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 6 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 7 | ‘ Lots of jazz players have been doing it now for six or seven years and are on a level with the Americans . |
| 8 | She claimed to be doing it only for Jeeta , but there was real , wilful contrariness in it , I suspected . |
| 9 | Savalas Clouting ( 17 ) , Shaun Tacey ( 18 ) and Laurence Hare ( 23 ) will be fighting it out for a place in the Witches reserve berths after graduating from last season 's double-winning junior side . |
| 10 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 11 | ‘ Golly , Simo , you are making it hard for us , ’ Quiggers went on . |
| 12 | ‘ In this constituency the other two parties are fighting it out for second place , ’ insists the 49-year-old former Bishop Auckland Grammar School head boy . |
| 13 | During the late 1920s and early 1930s when John Maynard Keynes ( 1883–1946 ) was working out a new economic system where government intervention would stabilise the negative effects of free enterprise — low investment , acute unemployment — individualist man and collectivist man were fighting it out for supremacy . |
| 14 | Said all you got ta do is make it out for a |
| 15 | The trouble is he 's wearing it out for Christopher so you wo n't see the new one . |
| 16 | ‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens . |
| 17 | what 's roll it out for ? |
| 18 | The Maritime Museum is fighting it out for the title with the National Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby and the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh . |
| 19 | In a sense destiny is playing it out for them . |
| 20 | I believe she 's leaving it on for me . |
| 21 | She had been covering it up for years . |
| 22 | German Shepherds from eight different police forces are battling it out for the title of the best in the west . |
| 23 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 24 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 25 | The 1992 Coca-Cola International was awarded World Cup status for the second consecutive year , and organiser Desi McHenry was offered it again for this year if he could change the date , something he was unfortunately unable to do . |
| 26 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 27 | He was doing it specially for them . |
| 28 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 29 | He was behind ee he had the brains , and was carrying it out for him , cos erm this erm I du n no if you know him eh , he runs this quarry to us up here . |