Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are even looking out for compensation . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't know they were coming from She never said she sai just said I 'm just holding out for some |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm just going out for a minute , Mam , I wo n't be long . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm just going out for a bit . |
| 5 | You know , I suspect I 'm not cut out for brothels . |
| 6 | I tell you , I 'm not giving you a penny more for clothes , I 'm not paying for any driving lessons when you 're seventeen , I 'm not shelling out for another disco , I 'm not giving you another lift to a party that everyone else in your year 's going to and you 'd be a freak if you missed it . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not coming back for a while . |
| 8 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 9 | I said , oh go a bit later then , I goes cos I 'll make it quarter past seven I 'm not sitting round for half an hour , not like kiddos |
| 10 | And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it . |
| 11 | I 'm always looking out for things I have n't heard before . |
| 12 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 13 | ‘ Good old Acapulco — someone 's always dropping in for lunch ’ |
| 14 | I was nearly chucked out for that , I left before they could chuck me out , actually . |
| 15 | I was not crying out for pain pills or anything . |
| 16 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 17 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 18 | He said I was just covering up for the fact that I had n't the faintest idea of what was wrong . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I guess I was never cut out for exam situations . |
| 20 | I was really choked up for a moment . |
| 21 | ‘ I was really pumped up for this one , I was even doing chin-ups on my bed last night . |
| 22 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 23 | Casual thefts , which were increasingly carried out for beef , accounted for a minority of stolen cattle except in districts where there was no organized stealing . |
| 24 | Black people can be denied eligibility by rules which were originally drawn up for completely different purposes ; property let to ethnic minorities tends to be of lower quality than that allocated to the white population ; and black families , which tend to be larger , may not find council accommodation which is large enough for their needs ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | Moreover , not very many of their sculptural portraits have survived ( only a few over a hundred for the three centuries after Alexander ) , partly because they were often made of bronze which was readily melted down for re-use . |
| 26 | Together they walked across the carpet ; a splendid Second Empire Aubusson which was always rolled up for the parties . |
| 27 | The alternative to managerialism was ‘ corporatism ’ , a concept which had earlier found application in the study of fascism but which was now dusted off for use in what seemed like a new social era . |
| 28 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 29 | All your enthusiasm vanishes ; not only have you not been able to ‘ do ’ it , but you are now convinced you are not cut out for mathematics teaching at all and none of your pupils could produce anything like that . |
| 30 | A problem arises with sample offers if you are not geared up for individual direct mail dispatch . |