Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been seeing him regularly for a few months now . |
| 2 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 3 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 4 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 5 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 6 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 7 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 8 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 9 | I 'm breaking them in for a horse . |
| 10 | Savalas Clouting ( 17 ) , Shaun Tacey ( 18 ) and Laurence Hare ( 23 ) will be fighting it out for a place in the Witches reserve berths after graduating from last season 's double-winning junior side . |
| 11 | ‘ The only way to know whether we are doing any good would be to take us away for a year ! |
| 12 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 13 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 14 | Said all you got ta do is make it out for a |
| 15 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 16 | So she 's saving them up for a |
| 17 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
| 18 | what I 'll probably do is take you out for a little while so you can go up and see Annie and all that , next week , not only a |
| 19 | ‘ The least you could do is invite me in for a coffee . ’ |
| 20 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 21 | The Maritime Museum is fighting it out for the title with the National Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby and the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh . |
| 22 | German Shepherds from eight different police forces are battling it out for the title of the best in the west . |
| 23 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 24 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 25 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 26 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 27 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 28 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 29 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 30 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |