Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.

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1 Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island .
2 Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July .
3 He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years .
4 I 'm sticking up for the little bless him .
5 ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted .
6 ‘ Jackie , you do n't understand , I 'm going down for the big one . ’
7 But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’
8 Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ?
9 I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer .
10 ‘ Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who 're cut out for the job . ’
11 And er I do do n't know which day it was but she was sitting there fed up second day I 'm thinking she said well I , I 'm going home tomorrow , so I said no you 're staying in for the week !
12 ‘ I suppose you 're fixed up for the rest of the evening ? ’
13 ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’
14 Right , that 's why you 're going out for the whole evening , for the water eh ?
15 It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night .
16 A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’
17 Is n't it awful to think your legs decide what your retirement 's going to be , but they do , more or less , so that if you th if you think a if you 've ever had any trouble with them you 'll realize , people say , you know , would you , we 're going out for the day , you coming ?
18 These friends from up north are coming for the weekend , so we 're going out for the weekend
19 The dog seems anxious to get the harness on ; indeed , all through the trip the dogs are always keen to pull and seem miserable when they are tied off for the night .
20 I feel really angry I mean I 'm you might say because of my job that I I ought to be law abiding but I am a law abiding person and i like to think that I would go along with all all the laws because they are they are brought in for the benefit of all .
21 Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance .
22 They 're coming up for the luggage . ’
23 And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams .
24 And that 's all now so Val said she said I said to Cheryl now do n't you go and take Mervy away cos me and Ken certainly are n't gon na go and sit sit with erm the 's all dinner time so she said what they 're gon na do , they 're going out for the meal and everything and then they 're Ken are gon na go to Cheryl 's for the rest of the day So I said so that 's upset your plans then Val she said is n't it just !
25 It 's gon na cost me a fair bit to get lines to the house I want so I 've got , er I , the problem is with , as dad was saying this morning , the majority of people when they 're starting their business they go to the wall because oh they 're going in for the , oh it 's gon na be a quick sale
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