Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's getting on for twenty-one years old , and perfectly capable of looking after herself . ’ |
| 2 | She 's cut out for better things than wasting her time on some blue-eyed , grease-stained English Romeo . ’ |
| 3 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 4 | Well she 's coming back for more . |
| 5 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 6 | And now ’ — The Fat Controller consulted his watch ; an endomorphic gold Rolex had replaced the full hunter — ‘ it 's getting on for nine-thirty . |
| 7 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 8 | he must be maybe he 's looking out for more work , I admire |
| 9 | He 's worked hard for this moment . |
| 10 | that 's why he 's selling it , he 's going away for seven |
| 11 | He 's going in for another one next month , but I doubt if that will work either . |
| 12 | Or they 're pun they 're pouring money into the countryside now forty five million , he 's going in for these developments er to create a better countryside just announced this week . |