Example sentences of "be [prep] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're for it for patriotic reasons . |
| 2 | There is somebody in that company , who 's probably been with it for nine months , who knows it backwards and who 's capable of playing the role . |
| 3 | Harry : ‘ I 'd have asked them , ‘ This opera , you 've been in it for long time — do you still like it then ? … |
| 4 | He 's been in it for five years ( only he and Jean Boht have been with the show from the beginning ) and he 's proud of that , he says . |
| 5 | Nobody 's been in it for ten years . |
| 6 | It was at the expense of last year 's Irish champion Mark Delaney that Kirk , from the Cairnlodge club rose to Ulster title status some months ago and if the Games team of '94 was picked tomorrow , this lanky shipyard apprentice would be in it for certain . |
| 7 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 8 | It 's not , it 's just like a little bead , it 's meant to be on it for that and |
| 9 | Perry and me have been without it for five days before this only on methadone . |
| 10 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 11 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 12 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 13 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 14 | So it 's worth it for twenty quid in n it ? |
| 15 | I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon . |
| 16 | That 's about it for this month . |
| 17 | It 's the ‘ What 's in it for all of us ? ’ factor . |