Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manningham had said he was n't for sale , but he might consider double the figure offered . |
| 2 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've heard it 's out for the Commie ( well , has been for years ) , and was wondering where I could get hold of a copy . |
| 7 | Ho how in fact di di did you keep on go you said mentioned you were out for seven months . |