Example sentences of "in it for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard .
2 I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk .
3 Cos an oil engine was in it for a while and then they put a new diesel engine in I think it would be nineteen thirty nine or something .
4 In fact he and then Craigie from Rowsay was in it for a while .
5 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 .
6 And he took me out in it for a test drive .
7 I was only in it for a lark . ’
8 I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool .
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