Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 2 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 3 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 4 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 5 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 6 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 8 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 9 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |