Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [prep] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been talk of meeting for a drink in the evening , but the talk had taken place at five in the morning as Kelly was hurriedly slipping into her clothes and now Nick seemed to have forgotten . |
| 2 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 3 | Observed values of rotation rate for the first 15 days ; as in Fig. 1 c , all values are residuals after allowing for the normal slowdown rate , the persistent increase in slowdown rate , and the 265-day component . |
| 4 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 5 | We were sort of waiting for the sunset thing . |
| 6 | It was not simply a matter of timing , for there is evidence of preparing for the moment by building up the organisation and , most important , a strike fund . |