Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [is] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But darling , she 's only just eighteen , ’ Nora said to Louise , ‘ and she 's not trained for anything . |
| 2 | ‘ Natasha started dancing at three and she 's always longed for her lessons . |
| 3 | And he is also calling for a massive reduction in overseas aid , already hit by the fall in the value of the pound . |
| 4 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 5 | So for him the technology holds no fears and he is always looking for ways to make the stock market more accessible to the ordinary man or woman in the street . |
| 6 | I 'm going for now it 's Michael 's turn and he 's not going for anything . |
| 7 | As far as he 's concerned , Barney is his man and he 's simply waiting for the forensic reports to confirm it . |
| 8 | ‘ We understand he 's still in Moscow , and he 's just waiting for the work permit to come through before signing for us . ’ |
| 9 | And he 's still fighting for compensation from his former captors . |
| 10 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 11 | The justification seems to have got lost along the way , but the attitude has prevailed until recently — you could argue about precise dates , but Philip Larkin plumped for 1963 — and it 's not done for yet . |
| 12 | The local people call the clays salão , and it is traditionally used for covering walls and houses . |
| 13 | From the survey , it would seem that many bureaux which own the microfilm system find many uses for it within the bureau when it has not been taken out for an outreach advice session ; it is used for training purposes in order to demonstrate access to and use of information in CAB advice work and it is also used for giving talks to outside groups . |
| 14 | The arena here is in an exceptionally fine state of preservation , with nearly all the seats intact , and it is frequently used for modern performances . |
| 15 | This commodity is always in short supply and it is hard fought for , especially after a general election when an order of priority has to be set in the legislative programme for fulfilling manifesto and other pledges . |
| 16 | Later the college became a school , and it is now used for the embryo of a university for the island . |