Example sentences of "was [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 2 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 3 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 4 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 6 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 7 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 8 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 9 | Neil Williams ( see the September issue ) was flying it for him and , the initial tests complete and the aeroplane signed off by Mike Searle , Spencer was ready for his first sortie . |
| 10 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 11 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 12 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 13 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 14 | She would have liked to know just which passages in the book her hostess found objectionable , but it was plain that the only way to find out was to study it for herself . |
| 15 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 16 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 17 | She was doing it for fun , a one-off comeback to the sport she had come to despise and walked out of five years ago . |
| 18 | And yet all her hard work has never been appreciated by those she was doing it for , her stepchildren . |
| 19 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |
| 20 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 21 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 22 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 23 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 24 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 25 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 26 | He was doing it for Germany . ’ |
| 27 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 28 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 29 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 30 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |