Example sentences of "be [adv] for [det] " 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 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 6 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 7 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 8 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 12 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 13 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 17 | You are in for some surprises . |
| 18 | If he succeeds in stirring up tabloid backing again with ‘ the people 's champion against the gin-and-tonic brigade ’ , the theme of 1984 , then Yorkshire are in for another incendiary winter . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Since an empty house is more of a challenge to burglars and squatters than one where there is lots of activity , you ca n't expect a rebate on your house and contents insurance — in fact your insurance company may even charge an extra premium if you are away for more than30 days . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 24 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 25 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 26 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 27 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 28 | Sell when you can , you are not for all markets . |
| 29 | They are not for those who insist that learning must be a serious business and who would feel embarrassed to be caught reading a ‘ comic book ’ . |
| 30 | But do n't think that the benefits of Convocation membership are just for those who now live in the North West . |