Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah , it 's getting quite cold , I reckon were in for some snow . |
| 2 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 3 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 4 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 5 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 6 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 7 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 8 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 9 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 10 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 11 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 12 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 13 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 14 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 15 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 16 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 17 | You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . |
| 18 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 19 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 20 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 21 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 22 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 23 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 24 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 25 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 26 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 27 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 28 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 29 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 30 | He had been away for some hours . |