Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 2 | While I am all for buying British , very little of what we buy here today is entirely British . |
| 3 | I am all for sharing , but am not interested in running a commune . |
| 4 | I am all for planning from the bottom up but I am also convinced of the virtues of the presentation of draft proposals as a means for making discussion possible . |
| 5 | That 's what they 're there for to provide a service are n't they ? |
| 6 | They can not get around so nimbly in scrub vegetation as the Norfolk lurcher ; they are really for coursing , for a long chase after hares , and my animals are not used for that . |
| 7 | I 'm all for getting er tape recorder . |
| 8 | I 'm all for bringing them in . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm all for sticking by players through bad patches but my patience is running out . |
| 10 | I 'm all for having the ball in play as often as possible . |
| 11 | Well I 'm concerned Geoff as a Ward Councillor I read about this in the paper that the Environment Committee which David is on er agreed to this scheme which is I 'm all for having squares in the city centre and places for people to sit and enjoy and I 'm ambivalent about the leaf stem . |
| 12 | I 'm all for waiting till Mrs Fanshawe perks up a bit . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , you should of said yes , I said , I 'm all for doing a survey wi , I 'm , your being recorded . |
| 14 | Leader Peter Perkins said : ‘ I 'm all for keeping historical buildings . |
| 15 | Even with myself , I 'm all for painting a frank portrait . |
| 16 | In peaceful times this levy might be enough for policing the Papal State , but to stave off imperial claims Innocent used paid troops and relied heavily on diplomatic manoeuvres to gain the support of allies . |
| 17 | Mixtures of the large-flowered kinds are likely to be best for naturalising , as they are often sold in bulk very cheaply for this purpose . |
| 18 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
| 19 | To be honest I 'd rather be there for going out in the morning and |
| 20 | Based on the successful model of the SCRE Spotlights ( A4 format with letterhead , easy to photocopy , relatively cheap to produce ) , this new series will be specifically for reporting the work of teacher researchers who are members of the Scottish Teacher Researcher Network . |
| 21 | So what grounds are there for condemning the porn ? |
| 22 | Supper parties were only for grown , ups . |
| 23 | The additional transactions costs were only for selling 20 index futures . |
| 24 | If you thought hat boxes were exclusively for housing prized straw ensembles , Mike Shepherd from The Box Office urges you to think again . |
| 25 | The gundogs were primarily for picking up at pheasant shoots and for work on my own shoot , but one of them , a Springer spaniel , was also used for hunting out rough-lying rabbits and also for retrieving shot rabbits from difficult situations . |
| 26 | I says it 's only for to keep your name right . |
| 27 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 28 | ‘ But at NT developer 's conferences we 're told that Posix is only for winning Government bids , and we should n't use it ’ . |
| 29 | He 's inside for having slit a man 's throat . |
| 30 | No , this is this is just for changing the stations . |