Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [det] [noun] " 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 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 3 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 7 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 8 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 9 | You are in for some surprises . |
| 10 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 11 | If you are away for several weeks your phone bill should be much lower than normal and you will automatically receive a Low User Rental Rebate . |
| 12 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 13 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 14 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 15 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 16 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 17 | Sell when you can , you are not for all markets . |
| 18 | Oh you 're in for some fun . |
| 19 | An Injun' yelled ‘ White men … we 're in for some fightin' … they 're not having our bison to eat . ’ |
| 20 | I can tell you you 're in for some trouble if you start that because I I is you you 're all in trouble if you want to start these smaller committees , we have looked at the committees and as I say we make no apology for the number of committees or the number that 's on 'em . |
| 21 | Tony 's back now so we 're off for some gnocchi . |
| 22 | The banks in the background are home for many badgers . |
| 23 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 24 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 25 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 26 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 27 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 28 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 29 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 30 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |