Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 2 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 3 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 4 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 5 | We 're ignoring them for the moment . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 7 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 8 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 10 | We 're taking you for a check-up at the Royal Infirmary . ’ |
| 11 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 12 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 13 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 16 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 18 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 19 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 20 | She 's been recording us for an hour |
| 21 | The first customers for the new service will be using it for a variety of applications . |
| 22 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 23 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
| 24 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
| 25 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
| 26 | The man who constantly criticises may be trying to change you into the person he wants you to be , when he should be loving you for the person you are . |
| 27 | I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them . |
| 28 | So after today , I shall not be cleaning you for a week . ’ |
| 29 | As you will be expecting me for a visit on your return tomorrow I am writing to let you know I shall not be attending your sessions again . |
| 30 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |