Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they they 're actually asking us for five hundred and ninety five pounds . |
| 2 | MUSICIANS from a Merseyside orchestra are really knocking 'em for six . |
| 3 | So , basically what I 'm here to ask you for this evening is your support of the project , and specifically , if the town council could buy us another one of these shipping containers . |
| 4 | And Mala would n't be there to reproach me for unethical … |
| 5 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 6 | ‘ Your comment over dinner that evening , about her acting in cheap soap operas , was quite apt ; I do n't think she 's ever forgiven you for that . ’ |
| 7 | At the end of this term , the Ayton School choir goes to Coventry Cathedral and Mr Essex , who will sing there with them , is currently rehearsing them for this occasion . |
| 8 | Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now . |
| 9 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 10 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 11 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 12 | She knew he had killed one of her countrymen the previous evening , and she supposed he was now preparing himself for all the others he would fight . |
| 13 | Tim Waterstone declined to expound on the decision , beyond saying that Waterstones had withdrawn from the concession for commercial reasons and was now re-entering it for commercial reasons . |
| 14 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 15 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |