Example sentences of "[Wh adv] be [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ How are we doin' for time ? ’ |
| 2 | Er , how are you fixed for the beginning of next month ? or the week after that ? |
| 3 | How are you doing for those ? |
| 4 | How 're we doing for time ? |
| 5 | How 're we doing for time ? |
| 6 | ‘ How 's he payin' for it ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When are they leaving for Finland ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Where are we bound for ? ’ she asked . |
| 9 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 10 | ‘ Where are we going for breakfast ? |
| 11 | ‘ Where are we going for our honeymoon ? ’ she said ‘ Glenmore . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Where are we going for our honeymoon ? ’ she said . |
| 13 | Where are we heading for when we leave here ? ’ |
| 14 | Where are we heading for ? |
| 15 | Where are you going for your holidays next year ? ’ |
| 16 | Where are you going for Christmas then Dot ? |
| 17 | Come on , J Janine where are you going for French ? |
| 18 | Suppose you have checked the list and decided which elements appear to be lacking in your daily diet , where are you to look for them ? |
| 19 | Why are you auditioning for West Side Story ? |
| 20 | Why are you looking for another job ? |
| 21 | Then : ‘ Why are you looking for him ? ’ |
| 22 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 23 | Why are you going for a walk ? |
| 24 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 25 | Why am I applying for this particular job ? |
| 26 | ‘ Where 're you going for your holidays , Tim ? ’ |
| 27 | B A S H F U L it 's down there , but it 's all in capital letters you see , now you 've got to find the diamond , which is what they , where did they , where were they looking for diamonds ? |
| 28 | Yeah , right , now we 're going to look for diamonds , where were they looking for diamonds ? |
| 29 | ROS : Now that we have found it , why were we looking for it ? |
| 30 | When is it written for ? |