Example sentences of "'s for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for recognising words rather than features or objects , visual . |
| 2 | I think it 's for taking stuff to the factory and that . |
| 3 | The advert 's for taking L S D with an hallucination . |
| 4 | It 's for throwing at them as you retreat into the living room . |
| 5 | She said , that 's for getting caught . |
| 6 | destroyed all mine and put it all in the , I mean lipsticks ten quid a time or whatever , seven quid a time , so I went through and Mary had a she got this moisture , oh I thought what does this mean , she said it 's for removing lines , I thought right we 'll have a sample this |
| 7 | th th there 's , basically there 's an ord it has an ordinary editor which is sub right , it 's an ASCII editor that appears in a window and it 's for using , for editing the ASCII files . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's for unfreezing car locks , ’ said Robyn , hastily stowing it away in the glove compartment . |
| 9 | You 'll never guess it 's for collecting gases so we call it a |
| 10 | And that 's for collecting erm words so that when they do the new dictionary all those words that people use and they do |
| 11 | It 's for calling a servant , but Julia and I never used it because we did n't have any servants . |
| 12 | That 's for watching too much |
| 13 | That 's for loading containers ? |
| 14 | No , that 's for building up lumps of cash . |
| 15 | It 's the title on the , it 's for establishing Europe 's first wildlife teaching hospital which is what we 're building at Haddenham pretty shortly . |
| 16 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 17 | Who 's for goin' ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That 's for despising your own life , fool , ’ he said calmly , ‘ Learn to kill like a reasoning man when you must , not like a woman crazed with spite . ’ |
| 19 | But the towel 's for wiping your hands on . |
| 20 | It 's , it 's for setting goals and working them out and so on . |
| 21 | ‘ And that 's for deserting me , you bastard ! ’ |
| 22 | It 's for hitting cricket balls with . |
| 23 | Oh yes yes it 's it 's for noting yes . |
| 24 | That 's for turning on and off radiators . |
| 25 | Something else , therefore , it 's for selling , especially public assets , and they get two pluses in that . |
| 26 | It 's a glove , but it 's for covering the hand . |
| 27 | That 's for carving the chicken |
| 28 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 29 | but it 's for playing golf in . |
| 30 | ‘ And this one 's for coming . ’ |