Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I am here for today is something completely different . |
| 2 | ‘ When I 'm away for more than six or seven days , the pang starts and I need to see her ’ . |
| 3 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 4 | I was there for nearly six months and by the end of the first week , I wanted to die . |
| 5 | I was waving but no-one would stop and I was there for nearly half an hour before a man pulled over and helped me . |
| 6 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 7 | and I was there for nigh on two and a half years and er , then we moved from there to Germany |
| 8 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 9 | And erm I was there for about a year . |
| 10 | er and then I think Oh I was there for about two years after |
| 11 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 12 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 13 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 14 | I was there for so long . |
| 15 | ‘ Is that what you 're here for then ? |
| 16 | ‘ … if you were away for as long as — say — a month ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You said you were here for just a week ? ’ |
| 18 | well , she friend in the morning , so she goes to our friends so she 's there for about twenty minutes before they |
| 19 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 20 | The temptation to put aside the bitterness and suspicion was great , but , after all , she was here for only one purpose , and now Luke had given her the ideal opportunity to pursue it . |
| 21 | We were away for about 3 minutes but on our return a new sight greeted us . |
| 22 | We were away for almost three weeks and in between the cricket we also played five hockey fixtures and one tournament . |
| 23 | Of course , we were here for only a short time and what time we had we spent with Debbie . |
| 24 | Well they 're there for just covering the ones that 're in the handout . |
| 25 | They 're only for very small things . |
| 26 | ‘ They were here for well over two months . |
| 27 | They were together for about two-and-a-half years and he is her son Sean 's father . |
| 28 | A spokesman for a major insurance company commented , ‘ If they were there for only a short time , we could arrange cover , probably without charge . ’ |
| 29 | What you do with it once you 've brought it to the surface is another matter : it is enough for now that you acknowledge it is there and begin to discover ways of getting at it . |
| 30 | Yeah but I mean that 's , that 's not the thing cos that 's not the sort of thing it is actually for though . |