Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am here for one year . |
| 2 | ‘ I am away for eight months a year and we hardly see each other . |
| 3 | I am away for four weeks . |
| 4 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
| 5 | My designs aim to appeal to the style-conscious young , whereas yours are strictly for retired country ladies . ’ |
| 6 | Even with Concorde I 'm away for long periods nowadays . ’ |
| 7 | When I go abroad on holiday , I think : I 'm here for two weeks , I can either sit here fully dressed for a whole fortnight , or I can take my leg off and jump in the pool . |
| 8 | I came here briefly last year and found it the most comfortable of cities to walk about in , so I 'm here for two months to learn Spanish . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 10 | Then she told him calmly , shifting her gaze slightly , ‘ I can assure you I 'm here for one reason and for one reason only … in order to help your cousin with her English . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm here for three weeks , barring accidents or terminal boredom . |
| 12 | I 'm here for some time , not forever . |
| 13 | Galactix scores 100% in all departments , now I 'm off for another game ! |
| 14 | because I 'm charged exactly the same whether I 'm there for three hours or twenty minutes ! |
| 15 | Because it 's there 's if I 'm there for three weeks and they only want a score card done then my potential earnings er total earnings are that but I 'm there anyway so if I 'm getting both of them done then I can earn a lot more money . |
| 16 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 17 | I 'm all for loud singing and opposition-baiting at matches and other times , but I do n't normally Do The Dambusters , or worse still the ‘ who 's that dying on the runway ’ stuff . |
| 18 | Er , first of all I would like to say , I 'm all for Equal Opportunities . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm all for sharp manoeuvres , Gareth , but I like to be on the inside of them . ’ |
| 20 | Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks . |
| 21 | I 'm all for missing hockey — how could I not be when my class coined a special place in the team-list for me : ‘ Lipman IVb . |
| 22 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 23 | And all of a sudden I was here for six months and then it was , then it 's a fucking year . |
| 24 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 25 | I thought I was in for another evening of getting slightly drunk on my own . ’ |
| 26 | I was out for 2 hours from about 2.30 . |
| 27 | Yes but the , the general ones we 've got in those flip you know when I was off , when I had my cartilage removed in my knee , well I was off for six weeks so I got all the photographs and put them in order , the children and us , you know ? |
| 28 | After I was there for six years |
| 29 | And er well I was there for eighteen month as a yard inspector . |
| 30 | And he went , I mean I was there for blooming ages . |