Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [verb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
| 2 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 3 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 4 | FIRST BLOOM DIANA 'S latest outing in the original dress , a favourite which was made for her in 1988 . |
| 5 | If a child is aged under 2 then any provision which is made for him/her by the LEA is stated to be special educational provision ; in the case of a child aged 2 or over it is ‘ educational provision which is additional to , or otherwise different from , the educational provision made generally for children of that age in schools maintained by the LEA ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I need your brother back even sooner than that — though perhaps I 'd better not say what fate I 'm planning for him . ’ |
| 7 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 8 | Living at home it was arranged for her . |
| 9 | That the Church in the form in which it was re-established eventually survived the Puritan onslaught was to a large extent due to the philosophical and historical basis which was provided for it with formidable learning by Richard Hooker . |
| 10 | The police have sor , have got a copy of our emergency evacuation procedures , at the moment we 're waiting for them to return it to us . |
| 11 | That day he came into Frank Green 's shop he was looking for me , and his seeing me with you nearly blew the whole thing . |
| 12 | But when she opened the door of her room he was waiting for her . |
| 13 | On this occasion he is posing for us with the ‘ stripper ’ in one of the kilns . |
| 14 | ‘ For a woman who 's dying for it , you 're holding up extremely well , ’ said Rory . |
| 15 | ‘ And there 's a passenger who 's waiting for you . |
| 16 | That 's a tenner a week they 're giving for him ! |
| 17 | To write a feature story on the Inaugural First Flight it was arranged for me to join the westbound plane at Moose Jaw and telegraph back the story from Calgary . |
| 18 | But the men had to balance it up by , what they called chits , tha that came on every garment and how much er money they were getting for it . |
| 19 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 20 | ‘ Search for the man who is searching for you . ’ |
| 21 | The man who was asking for us ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ When we stopped at Glastonbury , Mistress Rachel sent a message , God knows how , to that old witch who was waiting for us with her prophecies . |
| 23 | Hurry up hippo we 're waiting for you we all want to see |
| 24 | The syntactic coupling , the balancing of one construction against another parallel construction of similar form or similar length , seems to bring to the passage a feeling that all is well : Paul is following the destiny which is ordained for him , and no agonizing will disturb the peace of his passing . |
| 25 | The palace was surrounded by a crowd who were shouting for him to speak . |
| 26 | Now the doctor who 's cared for her says she 's well on the way to recovery . |
| 27 | ‘ [ Subject to section 63(A) ( b ) ] where in any year a person is employed in director 's or higher-paid employment and — ( a ) by reason of his employment there is provided for him , or for others being members of his family or household , any benefit to which this section applies ; and ( b ) the cost of providing the benefit is not ( apart from this section ) chargeable to tax as his income , there is to be treated as emoluments of the employment , and accordingly chargeable to income tax under Schedule E , an amount equal to whatever is the cash equivalent of the benefit . |
| 28 | But it occurs to me that if they are having sex with their patients ( or clients ) regularly , this may well be the only useful thing they are doing for them . |
| 29 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 30 | every year I 'm looking for it to move forward a little bit . |