Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 2 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 3 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 4 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 5 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |
| 6 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 7 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 8 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 9 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 10 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 11 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 12 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 13 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 14 | When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . |
| 15 | All that we ask is for sufficient land so that we may then help ourselves . |
| 16 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 17 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 18 | What we need is for all of us , men , women and children , to be open to and comfortable with all these feelings . |
| 19 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 20 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 21 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 22 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 23 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 24 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 25 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 26 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |
| 27 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
| 28 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 29 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 30 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |