Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 4 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 5 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 6 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 7 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 8 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 9 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 10 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 11 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 12 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 13 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 14 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 15 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
| 16 | Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ? |
| 17 | Movement , scent and sound can give you away when you 're heading in for a close up shot . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're holding out for a wedding-ring , ’ he said flatly . |
| 19 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're crying out for a replacement for Gary Lineker , ’ said Horton , ‘ and a front two of Bull and Shearer does n't sound bad to me . |
| 21 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 22 | You 're stood up for a number of offenses , the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road way in Accrington Road Worley used the mechanics of the vehicle when there was an excise licence in force , it 's an offence of the vehicles excise act in nineteen seventy one . |
| 23 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 24 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 26 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 27 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 28 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 30 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |