Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 2 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 3 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 5 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 6 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 7 | handled the caulking machines , and they can be If if you 're working with them for a length of time , they can get fairly heavy and laborious you know . |
| 8 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 10 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 11 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's been staying with us for a few days . ’ |
| 13 | If your employee has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week , regardless of the number of hours worked , she is eligible for lower rate SMP . |
| 14 | Alternatively , if she has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least five calendar years into the qualifying week for 8 hours or more each week , then she is also eligible . |
| 15 | ‘ So what have you been doing with yourself for the last five years ? ’ he asked , leaning back in his chair and looking quizzically at her . |
| 16 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 17 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 18 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 19 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 20 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 21 | so when would the first figures be given by you for the purpose of printing , approximately |
| 22 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 23 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 24 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 25 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 26 | So far , I have a car driver and a motor cyclist and I 'm looking for someone for the bus and train , and possibly taxi . |
| 27 | He was , however , concerned that information obtained by the SFO might be disclosed to other authorities , and might be used by them for a prosecution ; this concern did not lead him to believe that it would be proper to order the disclosure of the transcript to the SFO without any conditions . |
| 28 | ‘ Glad to be rid of you for a while , ’ she retorted . |
| 29 | Maria 's sister is ill , so she will be staying with her for a few days . ’ |
| 30 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |