Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're in it for the love of the game . |
| 2 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 3 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 4 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 5 | Yes , it 's always sad to say farewell to colleagues that have been with you for a number of years , but all things have to come to an end , we say farewell with sadness and er fond memories to those who 've been with us for so long , but we welcome all those who are joining us and we can promise them a thriving future . |
| 6 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 7 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 8 | And there 's another side to that which is that some people in the statutory provision are in it for the money , for their careers , for empire building and so on . |
| 9 | If you are not fond enough of a paper to buy it in bulk , it would be worth it for a group of friends or a class to get together and buy a mill pack . |
| 10 | Well , imagine how different our life would be for us for a start . |
| 11 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 12 | It wo n't be like it for a couple of years . |
| 13 | Promised her he would be in touch , and to be with her for the birth of their baby . |
| 14 | If only he knew that no man could give her what he had — thirteen frantic days of excitement and sensuality that would be with her for the rest of her life . |
| 15 | ‘ He had three years with John Edwards , but we bought him back for 5,600gns a year last June and he will be with me for the rest of his days . ’ |
| 16 | Contrasting Mr Donovan 's distress with that of victims of industrial injury , the judge said : ‘ You should have in mind it is not a case where you are awarding damages for someone who has suffered some physical injuries which will be with him for the rest of his days . |
| 17 | It 's also a way of saying that Pentiums will be with us for a while , overlapping the life cycles of both the 80486 and P6 , and that it will be some time yet before they reach a competitive price-performance curve . |
| 18 | It 's also a way of saying that Pentiums will be with us for a while , overlapping the life cycles of both the 80486 and P6 , and that it will be some time yet before they reach a competitive price/performance curve . |
| 19 | Am I right in saying that Susan 's with us for a full year every Wednesday and John is supposed to be with us for a term but it 's been extended has n't it |
| 20 | ‘ I want to be with you for the rest of my life . |
| 21 | Anyway , I thought I 'd come back and be with you for the evening in case you were lonely . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps they were as eager to be without me as I was to be without them for a while . |
| 23 | I knew we would be without them for the return so there 's no point talking about it we have other players who can score . ’ |
| 24 | His hand could only have been on her for a matter of seconds , if that , but when he released her she felt as though her skin had been scorched |
| 25 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 26 | They were in 'er for a dinner Which was excellent , in Pinner , And another one , a cracker , In Majacca — that 's in Spain |
| 27 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 28 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 29 | It takes about 2 hours to reach the top of the Hahnenkamm , but it 's worth it for the view . |
| 30 | And that 's that 's about it for the acids . |