Example sentences of "be [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 2 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe passionately in the future of this industry but what chance have we got when an avaricious few are using it for their own crazy purposes ? ’ |
| 4 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 5 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 6 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 7 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 8 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 9 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 10 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 11 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 12 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 13 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 14 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 15 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 16 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 17 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 20 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 21 | In effect we 're we 're erm er we 're safeguarding it for you if you want to . |
| 22 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 23 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 24 | and you 're calling it for ages but you ca n't go near it cos it will run away and it goes like this to you , it goes |
| 25 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 27 | You an me , the artists , we 're doing it for no-one 's eyes but our own , are n't we ? but while fundamental , as far as the book 's concerned , this is a minor point . |
| 28 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 29 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 30 | You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her . |