Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] [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 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 4 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 6 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 7 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 10 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 11 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 12 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 13 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 14 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 15 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 16 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |
| 17 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 18 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 21 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 24 | 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 . |