Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 2 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 3 | In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now … |
| 4 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 5 | Sadly , when Mr Mason 's marvellous edifice arrived in May 1857 it was discovered that the basin which had been prepared for it was far too small . |
| 6 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 7 | They had been notified for it anyway , you know . |
| 8 | The Collector selected just two more of these pistols , a small and reliable five-barrelled pistol by Lefaucheux of Paris , which he wanted to load and give to Miriam , and the English revolving pistol by Adams , which had caused such a stir at Woolwich by its lightness and by the rapidity with which it could be loaded and fired ( up to ten times a minute had been claimed for it ) . |