Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 3 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 4 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 5 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 6 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 7 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 8 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
| 9 | I wondered if they passed that Trade Union ( positive vetting ) file over to someone else or whether they were keeping it for my return . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 12 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 13 | HE : Anyone would think they were cutting it for coal-heavers ( pause ) or stonebreakers . |
| 14 | They were doing it for Roberto , he was such a lovable character . |
| 15 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 16 | Strong opposition to such Assemblies was silenced by a very modern excuse — they were doing it for Charity . |
| 17 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 18 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 19 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 20 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 24 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 25 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 26 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 29 | But she was doing it for their child , and in order to make sure that Angel was happy she needed the Reverend Morey . |
| 30 | She was doing it for fun , a one-off comeback to the sport she had come to despise and walked out of five years ago . |