Example sentences of "be [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 4 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 5 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 7 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 8 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
| 9 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 10 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 11 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 12 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 13 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 14 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 15 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 16 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 17 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 18 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 19 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 20 | The first customers for the new service will be using it for a variety of applications . |
| 21 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
| 22 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 23 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 24 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 25 | you know after he gets out from here on a temporary basis sort of thing , so that erm Christopher says he 's gon na be doing it for a year this lecturing , but it 's very nice for him because he 'll be able to contact him and Bob will help him if it 's necessary |
| 26 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 27 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 28 | Because I 'll be doing it for the rest of my life now . |
| 29 | No , I 'm doing it for A level . |
| 30 | No , it 's just Cherry 's I 'm borrowing it for a while . |