Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 2 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 3 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 4 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 5 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 6 | They 're here for the music and to enjoy themselves . ’ |
| 7 | Erm they 're the they 're there for a purpose and their size is there for a purpose in terms of er of the constrictions of the other road er sizing or whatever , and obviously huge vehicles who just ca n't possibly manoeuvre without going over . |
| 8 | Just to get to , and er so we 've , we 're there for an hour or so , then we are going er the Y M C A at Lakeside |
| 9 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |
| 10 | Contracts are typically for a three- or five-year term and can prove inflexible in the intervening period . |
| 11 | I 'd be all for the change because there 's logic in it . |
| 12 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 13 | Paul Sillitoe says they 'll be away for a month and walking to Everest base Camp … and he 's looking forward to it |
| 14 | She thinks she 'll be away for a week and I 've been wondering who I could get to look after the house . " |
| 15 | I 'm here for a case that 's being heard in the Appeal Court … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm here for the Expo and to promote my hotels ; and you ? ’ |
| 17 | She will be here for a week and her visit is already shrouded in controversy . |
| 18 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 19 | well you can have the dog , but I wo n't be here for the week if you 're having a dog |
| 20 | We may be here for an hour or two so you can go on home if you wish . |
| 21 | ‘ I was privileged to be there for a day and the whole thing was handled magnificently . ’ |
| 22 | and he probably would n't mind that you were only going to be there for a year or two you know he 's getting |
| 23 | The horses have been here for a year but up until yesterday the doors have been closed to the fans … yesterday they were opened up and thousands rolled up . |
| 24 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 25 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |
| 26 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 27 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 28 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |
| 29 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 30 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |