Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 7 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 8 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 9 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 11 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 12 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 13 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
| 14 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 17 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 18 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 21 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 24 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 25 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ … and this is Folly , who will be joining us for the first time this weekend . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 29 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 30 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |