Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [det] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 2 | A reliable little bird tells this column that Frank may not be long for this world either . |
| 3 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 4 | AGONY Aunt Marje Proops , who confessed to an adulterous 30-year affair with a bachelor lawyer , may be in for more agony still . |
| 5 | Sheridan will be out for several weeks following knee surgery . |
| 6 | With the commitment the application and operating system developers are showing , DOS is going to be around for some time yet . |
| 7 | I think that with John Maynard-Smith around — and I hope he 'll be around for some time yet in the University of Sussex , and I hope the University of Sussex will be too |
| 8 | Oh you 're not going to be here for this joke so I , I said oh got ta let him down . |
| 9 | ‘ My men will be here for some time yet , and I 'll leave someone here on duty all night . |
| 10 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 11 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 12 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 13 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 14 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 15 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 16 | It was not for this reason alone , fundamental though it is , that Phyllis Deane has written of canals that they were " of the essence of the industrial revolution " . |