Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 2 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 3 | Mr Gregory could be looking around for a job at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 5 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 6 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 7 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 8 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 9 | This is especially applicable for those that are not yet ready to drink and therefore need to be laid down for a year or more . |
| 10 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 11 | ‘ Malcolm may be coming in for a couple of days each week , ’ said Rofe . |
| 12 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 13 | She might be go out for a hike later in her slippers . |
| 14 | It is very tough to be left out for a rookie like Steve Ojomoh . ’ |
| 15 | Shirts that left Comme des Garçons with a one-hundred-pound price tag will be knocked down for a bargain price ; and a man 's shirt that looks good on a woman will cost more than the men-only variety . |
| 16 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
| 17 | There has been reference in the Selby area for the likelihood that land initially allocated for industry will in fact be taken up for a supermarket . |
| 18 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 19 | And you never say you 'd like to be taken out for a change , or ring him up when you want a bit of company ? ’ |
| 20 | She was obviously impatient to be taken out for a spin even though there was hardly puff enough to stir her anemometer . |
| 21 | During this time conditions were to be worked out for a monitoring scheme and new quota system , which was expected to allow renewed exploitation of certain stocks , notably of minke whales . |
| 22 | Pétain , he recommended , should now be put in command not only of the Left Bank , but of the Right Bank as well ; the ‘ fatigued ’ General Herr should be kept on for a while as Pétain 's adviser , then quietly ‘ limogé ’ . |
| 23 | They could get quite boisterous and reckless , especially during the early days , when they would be shut in for a while . |
| 24 | Sleeping out : Hartlepool people will be sleeping out for a night later this month to raise money for local projects to tackle homelessness . |