Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] be for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I want is for the case to be closed . |
| 2 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ All I ask is for the manager to believe in me and to be wanted . |
| 4 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 7 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 8 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 9 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 10 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 13 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 15 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 16 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 17 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 18 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 19 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
| 20 | All that you behold is for the most part , simply broadcasting equipment . |
| 21 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 22 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
| 23 | The descriptions of them in the books we read are for the most part as unlike the truth as are the descriptions of aristocratic life in the books they read . |
| 24 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 25 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 26 | What we need is for every single appeal stage , for the member to at least have the right to know why he or she has lost . |
| 27 | Now all we need is for The Stone Roses to resume their proper business ( which is making records ) and clear away all the current rubbish in the chart ( That would surely mean that The Stone Roses would have to release 100 singles which would all have to chart . |
| 28 | ‘ John Dyson , ’ the chairman was saying , ‘ do you , as a journalist , agree with the suggestion that what we need is for the press to take a firm moral lead and play down all news to do with race relations ? ’ |
| 29 | The territories that they inhabit are for the most part inhospitable , with some of the world 's highest mountains and large expanses of desert ; and levels of literacy have traditionally been low ( some of the nationalities concerned had no written language at all at the time of their incorporation into the USSR ) . |
| 30 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |