Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took courage , stopped , looked my questioner straight in the eye and said , ‘ I come from Fontanellato by tram and I am here for the same reason as you are . |
| 2 | " I am here for the by-election , Mrs Adeane . |
| 3 | I am here for the truth ! ’ |
| 4 | Personally I am all for the guilty being run to ground . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm here for the light , not the cheap alcohol . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm here for the Druggists ’ Meeting , ’ I said . |
| 7 | I 'm here for the reasons that they 've gone back there , I guess . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm here for the Expo and to promote my hotels ; and you ? ’ |
| 9 | Hope this peels of without chaffing the sleeve , because I 'm up for the record itself . |
| 10 | I 'm not for the workhouse , you know that , but I think they 'd all be better off in there . ’ |
| 11 | I suppose I 'm in for the mother of all court-martials . ’ |
| 12 | I am pleased we are to meet at 5p.m. or thereabouts at Waterloo on Wednesday , 8th February when I 'm down for the Co-ordinators , to take a close look at the programme for our Scottish National Conference on 10–12 March at the Scottish Churches House , Dunblane , in which you , Ingrid Keith and Mauricio Laborde , Chile , are to share . |
| 13 | Well I says , I 'm awfully sorry I 'm out for the day on Tuesday . |
| 14 | Now , I 'm all for the members of the Great British Public knowing a great deal more about the nostrums they consume , and having the information needed to help them share in deciding which are worth having and when , and which are best left to the birds . |
| 15 | I 'm all for the free market economy.i Maxham hobbled into the hall . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm all for the busmen ’ , he remarked decisively . |
| 17 | Du n no enough about Tinkler , what about Sharp as well I 'm all for the youth team comming into the premier league side so why not try them more this year . |
| 18 | I 'm all for the IFA decision to guarantee Republic match tickets only to those fans who buy seats for the Latvia game on Wednesday . |
| 19 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ANNETTE BENING : ‘ I was up for the part of a prostitute in Dangerous Liaisons , the one whose backside John Malkovich uses to write a letter . |
| 21 | I was along for the ride . |
| 22 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 23 | And I was there for the erm oh about fourteen months in all with the shooting . |
| 24 | I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building |
| 25 | The advantages of providing suitable extinguishers in lifts which are normally for the retrieval of goods has already been mentioned . |
| 26 | The most troubling of these measures is the first , which is presumably for the benefit of the security services . |
| 27 | It sounds simple but it is not , which is why for the time being Zurich seems to have stolen a march on its rivals . |
| 28 | Since 1990 she has really began to surface with work which is not for the faint hearted . |
| 29 | Finally the C.U.S.C. is a place which is solely for the benefit of people putting together investigations . |
| 30 | These often involve enthusing and organising others to create a work which is obviously for the community rather than the artist . |