Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the king penguin : the male is the one that incubates the egg , carrying it around on its feet and protecting it for months from the Antarctic weather with a fold of its lower belly … |
| 2 | He strolled to the door , opening it for her , and she glanced at him crossly . |
| 3 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |
| 4 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 5 | But the shopman had already bowed as though keeping it for her was all any human being could ask . |
| 6 | ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil . |
| 7 | I wondered if they passed that Trade Union ( positive vetting ) file over to someone else or whether they were keeping it for my return . |
| 8 | Erm by the land that 's being redistributed , they are actually keeping it for themselves , and that how that they 're |
| 9 | Just an empty box John but I 'm probably keeping it for erm |
| 10 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 11 | I 'm keeping it for him , like . |
| 12 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 13 | Common Law could not prevent the trustee employing it for the wife 's benefit , and Equity would compel him to do so . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope someone 's at home videoing it for him . ’ |
| 15 | It was already his nickname with fellow-writers such as Ezra Pound ; and , in adopting it for use by the youngest generation , he may have again wished to convey , though with slightly less emphasis , the elusive character of that animal , with its instinct for feigning and dissembling . |
| 16 | We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’ |
| 17 | showing us that Pip is entering the cold , real world and has left the warmth of Joe 's forge and his chance for contentment , trading it for social status . |
| 18 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 19 | Or , rather somebody 's signing it for him . |
| 20 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 21 | Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on . |
| 22 | Persuaded by his own musical studies of the need to educate rather than indoctrinate church musicians , he extended the aims of the College of Church Music , incorporating it for the purpose in 1875 ‘ by special licence under Act of Parliament ’ as Trinity College , London . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Occam gives extra scope for this because it is a parallel language : one can improve a program not only by reducing the overall amount of calculation , but also by configuring it for the ( possibly parallel ) machine on which it is to be run . |
| 25 | Configuring it for use is simplicity itself , although there are one or two caveats to observe . |
| 26 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 27 | For years , marble was refused to people wanting it for tombs to provide a supply for the Moloch in Bucharest . |
| 28 | ‘ What will you be wanting it for ? ’ he inquired . |
| 29 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 30 | This method is the first of its kind , and the ministry is considering developing it for commercial application . |