Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , what makes you think I 'm in for a long wait ? ’ |
| 2 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 3 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 4 | And he went , I mean I was there for blooming ages . |
| 5 | I say I been out for a walk because I ca n't sleep . |
| 6 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 7 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 8 | ‘ How do you know he 's here for the whole summer ? ’ |
| 9 | B : how long has he been away for or has he just been away ? |
| 10 | Personally , forget as I say , I say it 's enough for me . |
| 11 | If , if you look in your books page one seven seven , you 'll see a beautifully illustrated instruction on how to do it , which you can refer to yourself this evening or later on in the course if you forget but I 'm now gon na show you how to do one as well , you , if you want to know it 's there for you to look up you take the bandage and fold it into your narrow fold band and put it round your leg , you 've got something to tie a reef knot round , okay ? if you know how to do a reef knot already fine , just do it , if you do n't , follow instructions . |
| 12 | As I wait at the traffic lights I find myself crying ; I realise it is not for Hilda but for him . |
| 13 | Hope I 'm back for Larry 's party . |
| 14 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 15 | He 'd thought her a little too old for his own purposes , but always assumed she was there for the taking . |
| 16 | ‘ The radio says we 're in for heavy showers , ’ Aunt Becky glooms . |
| 17 | The omens were bad , and when the Hammersmith show eventually got going it seemed we were in for an all-time rock ‘ n ’ roll disaster . |
| 18 | ‘ She thought they 'd better have something to drink so she got some sherry , then she was worried because she 's only got those little glasses you know , little tumblers , and she says they 're only for whisky . ’ |
| 19 | Corbett suddenly grasped that the Bishop , like others , really believed he was here for other reasons and hoped to trap him into an admission . |
| 20 | I says it 's only for to keep your name right . |
| 21 | Manningham had said he was n't for sale , but he might consider double the figure offered . |
| 22 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 23 | I did n't know the forecast , but could see we were in for a storm . |
| 24 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 25 | Dean Hodgson was first to go … caught behind … for 9 and then in the next but one over Broad was leg before for 14 … at 26 for 2 the Gloucestershire folk must have thought they were in for a hard day but Mark Alleyne came to the rescue … he made 73 … |
| 26 | He claimed he was inside for not paying his poll tax . |
| 27 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 28 | As I suspect it 's not for many of the people here . |
| 29 | So MacDonald reckons he 's in for a hard night at Broomfield on Tuesday . |
| 30 | Whatever the weather throws up though , I know I 'm in for some good walking . |