Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though I have reached my monthly target I still receive no bonuses but you tell me I am on target for the large bonus in April . |
| 2 | I am on medication for high blood pressure ; could this be part of the problem ? |
| 3 | Flavia said with a certain dignity , ‘ I 'm under age for driving . |
| 4 | I 'm , I 'm under pressure for two decisions , Paul is here to speak to his paper and has to be in Sandwell at two o'clock , and I 'm told that the canteen closes at one thirty . |
| 5 | then I 'm on holiday for a week . |
| 6 | One colourful character in my year said to her class of eleven-year-olds , ‘ I 'm on trial for my life , so mind you behave yourselves ! ’ |
| 7 | I 've only been here a month meself , and I 'm on nights for the extra money . |
| 8 | I 'm off home for the morning , but you 're wanted to come with me to see a VIP about a missing person . |
| 9 | My name 's Carolyn and I 'm for Director for a group exploring parenthood . |
| 10 | I did n't know Alec , but Salome 's virtually family , so I 'm after Cawthorne for that , yeah . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm in Naples for a number of reasons … ’ |
| 12 | If Liz asks , I 'm in bed for a while . |
| 13 | So on , for example , the fifteenth of that particular month , er , I 'm in Manchester for the day , I have one meeting at ten o'clock and I have another meeting at three thirty . |
| 14 | Well , tovarishch , I 've got to get my boiler suit on as I 'm in line for this year 's Mother of Industry washing machine . |
| 15 | It may make me sound as if I 'm in training for a Blue Peter badge , but it works . |
| 16 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 17 | Er , no I was on holiday for a week |
| 18 | Okay fine , he then gave me , I did n't know , I was on Prozac for a month . |
| 19 | I was taken into the , my wife died in January of nineteen eighty nine , I was taken into the local psychiatric hospital at in the December of nineteen eighty nine and I was told I was gon na be given an experimental drug , I was told nothing about it or any anything to do with any of the side effects , I I was in th I was on Prozac for about four days , I suffered horrendous side effects , shaking and one thing and another . |
| 20 | I was on tablets for two days and then taken off , just like that . |
| 21 | I thought it right to apprise Cyril of what had happened at Muirfield , but having corresponded with the Seniors secretary , he assured me I was on course for election . |
| 22 | I was on duty for both the VE and VJ nights so took no part in either celebration . |
| 23 | I was on remand for three weeks . |
| 24 | I was on remand for twenty-two weeks . |
| 25 | So I was without money for about three weeks . |
| 26 | I was with Suu for two and a half weeks in April and I was able to tell her that this was going to happen today . |
| 27 | I was with Jerry for four years — from 1972 to 1975 — and I learned a lot from him . |
| 28 | I was with Jack for nearly two years and during that time I first met Greg Norman . |
| 29 | I was at school for seven years . |
| 30 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |