Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 2 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 3 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 4 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 5 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 6 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 7 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 8 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 9 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 10 | The Maritime Museum is fighting it out for the title with the National Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby and the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | German Shepherds from eight different police forces are battling it out for the title of the best in the west . |
| 12 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 13 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 15 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 16 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |