Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 2 | Look for small animals attached to the leaf or crowding around it for food . |
| 3 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 5 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 6 | If you have forgotten anything , you can always phone whoever has a key to your house or is looking after it for you . |
| 7 | I 'm looking after it for Cherry . |
| 8 | Nevertheless I would claim that the religious life as a phenomenon has insights which can throw light on the question , because the nuns have been wrestling with it for centuries . |
| 9 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 10 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 11 | Noreen had a small voice and relied on people listening to it for its full effect . |
| 12 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 13 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 14 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 15 | People looking to it for educational use , or a big company HQ . |
| 16 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 17 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 18 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 19 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
| 20 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 21 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 22 | That was a bit far fetched I suppose but erm you wo n't be looking at it for it is believable or not . |
| 23 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 24 | I think you 'd get more than a t parking ticket looking at it for M O T wise if he get pulled . |
| 25 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 26 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 27 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 28 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 29 | Lots of people like the poster too , so we 'll be sticking with it for now , and as for the scores … we 'll be done some more reader challenges soon , so liars who can hardly play a game they claim to have mastered will have me to deal with ! |
| 30 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |