Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 4 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 5 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 6 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 7 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 8 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 10 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 11 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |