Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better be prepared for the hauntings , because hauntings is what you 'll bloody well get . |
| 2 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 3 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |
| 4 | The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " . |
| 5 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 6 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 7 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 8 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 9 | It is also possible that seasonal meeting places had already been determined for the exchange of goods and people as well as social intercourse . |
| 10 | Arróspide [ see also p. 34182 ] was at the time in a Paris prison awaiting trial for offences committed in France , and his extradition had already been sought for the 1987 supermarket bombing in Barcelona [ for which see p. 35851 ] . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , estimates had already been obtained for the provision of a nurses ' recreation room and tennis courts for the nursing staff . |
| 12 | Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men . |
| 13 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 14 | ESRC funding enabled the research team to classify and analyse biographical material that had already been collected for the 1900-39 cohorts through record search and postal questionnaire for the 1940-67 cohorts . |
| 15 | Mr Dowson , who is due to be married in June , said equipment worth more than £1,000 had already been bought for the programme . |
| 16 | In July the Earls of Northampton , Oxford , Pembroke and Devon together with Sir Hugh Despenser , Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Richard Stafford took an army to the duchy and put Charles of Blois to flight at the battle of Morlaix on 30 September , while in October the king himself embarked for Brittany , aware that part of the duchy had already been regained for the Montfort cause . |
| 17 | However , the ground sought had already been promised for a schoolmaster 's residence . |
| 18 | This is , in effect , what had already been known for a considerable time as a ‘ cantata ’ for six voices , four viole , two violini , and string and keyboard continuo , in four strongly contrasted sections ( solo and tutti ) preceded by a sinfonia . |
| 19 | Three hundred and eight pounds was for the ladies open , four hundred and twenty for the outing to , two hundred and twenty six had already been paid for the coach , plus all the prizes . |
| 20 | It was getting quite late now , and the ward had already been darkened for the night . |
| 21 | Glenda Jackson had already been approached for the female lead . |
| 22 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 23 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 24 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 25 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 26 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 27 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 28 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 29 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 30 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |