Example sentences of "it [is] for [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll never guess it 's for collecting gases so we call it a |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's for unfreezing car locks , ’ said Robyn , hastily stowing it away in the glove compartment . |
| 4 | It 's for recognising words rather than features or objects , visual . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | It 's , it 's for setting goals and working them out and so on . |
| 7 | I think it 's for taking stuff to the factory and that . |
| 8 | It 's for making products which are now or are potentially viable commercially . |
| 9 | It 's for hitting cricket balls with . |
| 10 | Aye it 's for carding wool . |
| 11 | but it 's for playing golf in . |
| 12 | Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic . |
| 13 | It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness . ’ |