Example sentences of "in it for a " in BNC.

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1 It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time .
2 I was only in it for a lark . ’
3 A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard .
4 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 .
5 Once it has been lifted from the frames it will be offered to the NRM who have expressed interest in it for a projected display .
6 But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for .
7 Christine let him stew in it for a few moments .
8 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 .
9 And he took me out in it for a test drive .
10 She had a cloud of short hair curving in clinging waves about her head , the colour of barley silk , and under the feathery fringe her forehead bulged childishly , with room in it for a notable brain , the one thing about her that was not suavely curved and ivory-smooth .
11 No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ?
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 In fact he and then Craigie from Rowsay was in it for a while .
15 But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really
16 in it for a , for a couple of years to get as much as they can and get a
17 He has n't been in it for a long time .
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