Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 4 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 7 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 9 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 11 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 12 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 13 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 14 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 15 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 16 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 17 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 18 | What we need is for every single appeal stage , for the member to at least have the right to know why he or she has lost . |
| 19 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 20 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 22 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 23 | In one respect the change seems to me to have been for the worse . |
| 24 | He has been for the last six years . ’ |
| 25 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 26 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 27 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 28 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 29 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |