Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [be] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I 'm going in for twelve and finish for eight |
| 2 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 3 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 4 | So we 're talking there for about something of the order of twenty nine thousand develop erm dwellings committed in one form or other er in North Yorkshire . |
| 5 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 6 | ‘ Well ’ — she straightened her broad shoulders ‘ perhaps everything 's turning out for the best then . |
| 7 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 9 | So it is used mainly for brief shots or parts of shots , or for very special effects — perhaps the most familiar being the laser swords in the Star Wars series . |
| 10 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 11 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 12 | ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran . |
| 13 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 14 | Now it was getting on for five o'clock . |
| 15 | one of the favourites to win the British Hangliding Championships is Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes … he helped Britain to third in the world cup which has just finished in California … now he 's taking off for Spain … that'ss where they 're holding the British competition … why its hot sunny and its ' not raining … |
| 16 | Now he is known best for writing and talking a good match . |
| 17 | Tomorrow I 'm going upstairs for good . |
| 18 | Well I 'm done now for till tomorrow morning and then thank god it 's Friday I say . |
| 19 | Well I 'm staying up for one more game |
| 20 | Well she 's coming back for more . |
| 21 | that need , you know if you 're , unless you live sort of here you 're going up for appointments , doctors , whatever |
| 22 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 23 | But I thought well they were made originally for Marks were n't they ? |
| 24 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 25 | There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages . |
| 26 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 27 | And then you 're going away for the weekend ? |
| 28 | They may not always get what they want , but at least they 're standing up for them and actually feel good about themselves afterwards because . |
| 29 | By then it was getting on for lunchtime but , sauntering through the colonnade , she could n't resist first climbing a flight of stairs to take a look at some of the splendid Bohemian glassware on display . |
| 30 | Then he was sent off for charging him . |