Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 10 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 18 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 19 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 22 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 23 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 24 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 25 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 26 | He 's been out for some time . |