Example sentences of "was [v-ing] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 5 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 10 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And yet all her hard work has never been appreciated by those she was doing it for , her stepchildren . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 16 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 17 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 18 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 19 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 20 | He was doing it for Germany . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 23 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 24 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 25 | Robert Sheldrake was taking it for granted that the only threat to his practice was that of two small-animal vets , and even that was sufficient for him to be rather unpleasant . |
| 26 | So he was taking it for granted or or chancing his hand that this Monday for this year was going to be another good day . |
| 27 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 28 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |
| 29 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |