Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are even looking out for compensation . ’ |
| 2 | I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’ |
| 3 | I am not arguing here for a return to streaming or special provision for children with exceptional gifts . |
| 4 | I did n't know they were coming from She never said she sai just said I 'm just holding out for some |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just going out for a minute , Mam , I wo n't be long . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm just going out for a bit . |
| 7 | You know , I suspect I 'm not cut out for brothels . |
| 8 | I tell you , I 'm not giving you a penny more for clothes , I 'm not paying for any driving lessons when you 're seventeen , I 'm not shelling out for another disco , I 'm not giving you another lift to a party that everyone else in your year 's going to and you 'd be a freak if you missed it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not coming back for a while . |
| 10 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 11 | I said , oh go a bit later then , I goes cos I 'll make it quarter past seven I 'm not sitting round for half an hour , not like kiddos |
| 12 | And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it . |
| 13 | I 'm not going then for oh ages . |
| 14 | I 'm always looking out for things I have n't heard before . |
| 15 | I 'm only speaking now for the welfare of other fighters . |
| 16 | Cos our Lianne said to me on Thursday mother I 'm only going away for week . |
| 17 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 18 | I was nearly chucked out for that , I left before they could chuck me out , actually . |
| 19 | I was not crying out for pain pills or anything . |
| 20 | But it instantly became clear that I was n't speaking just for myself . ’ |
| 21 | dir : I was n't arguing just for randomised controlled trials — but we do need hard facts like those which experiments provide . |
| 22 | I was n't playing well for the rest of the team , and that is one of my strengths , because even when I 'm not scoring I know I can contribute . |
| 23 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 24 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 25 | I was just sitting there for about five minutes then she got up , then she , ooh , sat down , then she got up . |
| 26 | He said I was just covering up for the fact that I had n't the faintest idea of what was wrong . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I guess I was never cut out for exam situations . |
| 28 | I was really choked up for a moment . |
| 29 | ‘ I was really pumped up for this one , I was even doing chin-ups on my bed last night . |
| 30 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |