Example sentences of "in it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat in it for fourteen hours a day , hoping to get about £2,000 for all the appeals which lay before him . ’ |
| 2 | On having ideals , like as you grow older , I mean you 're quite an ancient person already , within the next ten years you 'll have to choose the sort of lifestyle you want and you really have to choose as well whether you 're going to involve other people in it for good or for |
| 3 | While business was buoyant there was a living in it for many small shops that are liable to succumb in a climate where 40 per cent of the country are wanting independent deals , and the remainder are demanding much improved advice and service . |
| 4 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 6 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 7 | Harry : ‘ I 'd have asked them , ‘ This opera , you 've been in it for long time — do you still like it then ? … |
| 8 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The fact that we stayed in it for four seasons was not a little due to the . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Instead I bit my finger so hard I had teeth marks in it for two days . ’ |
| 13 | And I got a bag from erm Woolworths all blue shells in it for two ninety |
| 14 | This chamber is also unnaturally cold ; anyone who remains in it for one complete turn will take an automatic Wound unless they have some magical protection against cold . |
| 15 | It 's the ‘ What 's in it for all of us ? ’ factor . |
| 16 | it 's right soft carpet , it does n't , there not be a lot of wool in it for that money , you know what I mean |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | In March we marked John 's seven hundredth day by erecting a cell-like cage in Covent Garden and persuading as many famous people as possible to come and stand in it for half an hour while the press filmed them . |
| 19 | Nobody 's been in it for ten years . |
| 20 | In a minute he would go and run a hot bath , luxuriate in it for ten minutes or so , and then get his head down . |
| 21 | The staged process allows the majority to watch the change without having to be involved in it for some time . |
| 22 | It was almost as if his thoughts were not wholeheartedly in it for some reason . |
| 23 | Well , they erm seem to think we should have had some yellow in it for some obscure reason to match the programme , but I do n't know , I thing it would have taken the erm the look off the thing . |
| 24 | The space of desperation is a wide one , and if there is room in it for little stunted people , there is room too for figures that are a mile or an inch high . |