Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | And he went , I mean I was there for blooming ages . |
| 3 | I say I been out for a walk because I ca n't sleep . |
| 4 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 5 | Personally , forget as I say , I say it 's enough for me . |
| 6 | As I wait at the traffic lights I find myself crying ; I realise it is not for Hilda but for him . |
| 7 | Hope I 'm back for Larry 's party . |
| 8 | As I suspect it 's not for many of the people here . |
| 9 | Whatever the weather throws up though , I know I 'm in for some good walking . |
| 10 | I know I 'm in for a long night . |
| 11 | You know you 're in for it when the name of Tambimuttu appears . |
| 12 | From the moment you step in to the cool , colonial atmosphere of Sunwing 's reception with its cane and luxurious pastel furniture you know you 're in for a real treat . |
| 13 | And when you have Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons starring opposite his wife , Sinead Cusack you know you 're in for a class act . |
| 14 | You know you 're in for a rough ride just by gawping at their photos for this package which show Knight hunched up against some slum wall and Blake glowering in true Exorcist 2 style from within a storm of locusts . |
| 15 | ‘ Only to an expert in family relationships — and I know you were away for the weekend ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Right from the credits sequence , with a double becoming a triple screen we know we 're in for a goody . |
| 17 | AS SOON as I see a screen full of Florida palm fronds , broken down clapboard houses and Cadillacs full of heaving , unhappy women , I know we are in for an Erotic Thriller . |
| 18 | I do n't know er why we 're not more continually erm more on the case as far as our members of parliament are concerned because remember they 're there for our benefit and front page of the Daily Mirror this morning . |
| 19 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 20 | I think that people like us are up for grabs anyway . |
| 21 | I suppose I 'm in for the mother of all court-martials . ’ |
| 22 | I think that we have a very butch attitude , I think the government has a very butch attitude quite honestly , er to , you know , you 've got to er stand up there and help yourself , and I suppose I 'm all for that , but you 've got to have something to help yourself with , and I think that 's where we ought to be aiming and I 'm very glad that the world 's leaders are heading straight in that direction . . |
| 23 | Er , which er I suppose I was there for for six years . |
| 24 | Above a pair are just abbing off : they 've decide it 's not for them today . |
| 25 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 26 | I mean it 's mostly for the kids or if , w when we 're travelling in the car anywhere . |
| 27 | The lights in the sky mean it 's over for Heyford 's last remaining servicemen in the Gulf . |
| 28 | But it means that she , she has a , a week 's holiday and I think she 's back for about three weeks and then breaks up again at school |
| 29 | and then I think she 's back for , erm I think she gets back , she misses one Monday this Bank , Bank Holiday , that 's , that 's four days and then , she does , I think she 's got another two , three weeks and I suppose she 'll be , well she 'll be doing GCSEs anyway |
| 30 | Just when you think you 're in for an in-depth discussion on the technicalities of the Joey Beltram mix of state-of-the-art frightcore Techno duo MESSIAH 's last single , you find yourself caught up in a debate about doom and dwarf procuring and rock 'n' roll giants . |