Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 2 | But Robson is expected to be back for next Saturday 's visit to fourth-placed Chelsea . |
| 3 | I expect to be there for 2 years . |
| 4 | Have you got ta be there for half past ? |
| 5 | Why have you got ta be home for three ? |
| 6 | And I got ta be back for three . |
| 7 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 8 | With the commitment the application and operating system developers are showing , DOS is going to be around for some time yet . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm only going to be away for forty-eight hours … ’ |
| 10 | Oh you 're not going to be here for this joke so I , I said oh got ta let him down . |
| 11 | Then she added , ‘ Well , I 'm only going to be here for three weeks . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Looks like we 're going to be in for some pretty flamboyant fielding from the West Indies ’ |
| 13 | But perhaps the greatest satisfaction is the knowledge that you have created something of the beauty that is going to be there for many years . |
| 14 | I doubt you 're going to be there for three days though . |
| 15 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 16 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 17 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 18 | ‘ I did my medial ligaments against Swindon last Thursday and I 'm going to be out for two or three weeks at the very least . |
| 19 | We 're going to be together for three whole years . ’ |
| 20 | Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time . |
| 21 | I would like to be here for that . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 23 | Right cos I know you 've got to get off you 've got to be there for six have you ? |
| 24 | So , I mean what I would suggest is er I do n't know is John anticipated to be off for some time do you think ? |
| 25 | The empty refrigerator and the absence of perishable food like bread and milk suggested that Stavanger had left expecting to be away for some time , but that conflicted with the pyjamas under the pillow in the bedroom , and the razor in the bathroom . |
| 26 | then we 'd have to be back for eleven , ca n't , I do n't know what 's gon na happen to the dog |
| 27 | Obvious examples are travelling or living abroad , the husband having to be away for long periods , having to relocate , changing children 's schools at an awkward stage in their career , having to do a lot of company entertaining . |
| 28 | The alumni seems to be essentially for fund-raising purposes : ‘ You were there at Salford , please dig deep into pockets ’ . |
| 29 | Tile designs alter with changing fashions in interior design , and current demand seems to be mainly for large areas of neutral or small-patterned tiles , perhaps interspersed with individual motif tiles on a matching background . |
| 30 | Staff Nurse Target needed to be back for visiting hour , as there were always some visitors asking questions . |