Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 33 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 35 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 36 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 37 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 38 | The things I wrote were for you . |
| 39 | Even after I mean , as I say , we went out on the Wednesday and he said , all I need is for you to do this book again for me . |
| 40 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 41 | ‘ Gentle , indeed ! ’ she said ‘ And if I were as gentle in the market as I have been for him at home , how does he think I would manage ? ’ |
| 42 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 43 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 44 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 45 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 46 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 47 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 48 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 49 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 50 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |
| 51 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 52 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |
| 53 | Now all I wanted was for James to ask me out and I would 've when out with him you know . |
| 54 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 55 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 56 | The charities which benefit are for men and women . |
| 57 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 58 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 59 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 60 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |