Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strolled to the door , opening it for her , and she glanced at him crossly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But the shopman had already bowed as though keeping it for her was all any human being could ask . |
| 4 | I 'm keeping it for him , like . |
| 5 | Erm by the land that 's being redistributed , they are actually keeping it for themselves , and that how that they 're |
| 6 | I wondered if they passed that Trade Union ( positive vetting ) file over to someone else or whether they were keeping it for my return . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope someone 's at home videoing it for him . ’ |
| 8 | Or , rather somebody 's signing it for him . |
| 9 | He 's saving it for his kids , that 's what he says . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Very likely not , but that does n't dispense me from taking nourishment at regular intervals , nor other people from cooking and serving and ordering it for me . ’ |
| 12 | In effect we 're we 're erm er we 're safeguarding it for you if you want to . |
| 13 | Helen Carson discovers why the sisters are doin' it for themselves Women building on success |
| 14 | Do n't worry about turning it for me |
| 15 | I like baking it for him ! |
| 16 | Conversely , eating the person 's body might indicate the ultimate contempt , in that you were degrading them completely : as you ate parts of the body you were mocking the person 's erstwhile vigour and simultaneously stealing it for your own use . |
| 17 | He unlocked the car door , holding it for her while she slipped inside with a quiet murmur of thanks . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm holding it for somebody . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm holding it for you — ’ |
| 20 | Apart from Nora and the weirdos we 'd get people buying it for their girlfriends , as a laugh Some girls , those who were a bit more out there , would buy the rubber wear for themselves . |
| 21 | No she 's buying it for me birthday . |
| 22 | It was venerated by succeeding Popes but had unfortunately been despoiled , first by the Byzantine Emperor Constans II who , in 655 removed the gilded bronze plates which covered the dome and replaced them with lead and later , in 1625 , by the Barberini Pope Urban VIII who destroyed the portico roof in order to use the bronze beams supporting it for his own building schemes . |
| 23 | That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it . |
| 24 | First , most clients tell the solicitor what they want and he sets about getting it for them . |
| 25 | — But do n't take off , mind , while I 'm getting it for you ! ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They are using it — milking it for their own financial gain . |
| 28 | He frowned at the sunset as if blaming it for something . |
| 29 | ALFRED McTEAR , the first Scot preparing to take a tobacco company to court blaming it for his lung cancer and claiming compensation , has died at his Ayrshire home . |
| 30 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |