Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 2 | Should she join the group of young vets who had qualified with her two years ago or should she go straight back to her godmother 's house , where she was staying for the duration of this annual veterinary congress ? |
| 3 | We 've got clients , for example , where we are waiting for the sale of land to get our monies in , so it 's reasonable to expect that we 'll see that within the next three years . |
| 4 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 5 | The Brotherhood is still active today , not only in Egypt where it is prominent in university life , but in Jordan and Syria ( where it was blamed for the 1982 uprising at Hama ) . |
| 6 | No I did n't apply , I erm , although I was interviewed for the job . |
| 7 | My lack of culinary expertise has always been a source of great mirth to the men in my life and my well-attended failures embroidered into legends over the years , so I was prepared for the banter that accompanied dinner . |
| 8 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 9 | And David Goldsmith has also sorted out the best buys in powder snow equipment , so you are prepared for the exhilaration . |
| 10 | But once you were qualified for the job you could n't put a stranger on you had to ta teach that stranger a job . |
| 11 | Norman Fowler 's speech was far too left-wing for them , so they were heading for the ‘ Hedgehog and Hogshead ’ , a railway pub north of the main Brighton railway station . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's worried about Gairloch so he 's waiting for the vet . ’ |
| 13 | Clarke equalled the United Kingdom junior women 's record of 2.95 metres , and must now wait anxiously to see if she is selected for the junior international match against Hungary later this month . |
| 14 | He then asked if she was prepared for the parting and she told him , ‘ Willingly , John , in such a cause as this . ’ |
| 15 | If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen . |
| 16 | They fell silent for a moment , all of them wondering if she was shopping for the son who was lying in a dissecting trench at the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 17 | First decide whether you wish to make a portrait or landscape design , and check that the card will stand up properly if you are opting for the latter shape . |
| 18 | ‘ I will give you a minute , no more , to tell me if you are working for the British Government or another . |
| 19 | IT looks more like an obelisk than a hotel , but if you 're looking for the unusual and eccentric , the 218-ft Sway Tower piercing the New Forest skyline could be yours for £1million . |
| 20 | If you 're looking for the perfect Valentine 's prezzie for your perfect man that 's just a bit different check these out ! |
| 21 | If you 're looking for the perfect summer dress , how about this flattering style with full skirt and neatly-belted waist ? |
| 22 | If you 're heading for the Paris Disney during the Easter holidays , how can you beat the queues ? |
| 23 | well you usually do , so I 'm wondering if you 're going for the , you know , your , the usual performance |
| 24 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 26 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 27 | If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) . |
| 28 | If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals . |
| 30 | I think the only danger of looking at E D P , is that if we 're doing for the guys in the office , then what do we do with the supervisors ? |