Example sentences of "be [verb] for [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An office has been prepared for you in the Kremlin . |
| 2 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're waiting for you in the alley way at the back of the shop . |
| 4 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
| 5 | Liston and company were out on the lawn behind the house , where an old-fashioned wrought-iron table and some matching chairs had been set for them in the evening sunlight . |
| 6 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 7 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 8 | Will Mum and Dad be waiting for me in the hall ? |
| 9 | He should be waiting for you in the transport yard at the back . ’ |
| 10 | Next morning in the market , shopping for a picnic , our struggles with the phrasebook brought an English-speaking Thai to our rescue , explaining that the quail eggs we had bought were raw , but could be cooked for us in the soup cauldron wherever we took breakfast . |
| 11 | I 'll never be mistaken for him in the street then . |
| 12 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 13 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 14 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 15 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 16 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 17 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 18 | This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts . |
| 19 | Mandeville 's waiting for us in the hall below , talking about God 's vengeance come to judgement . ’ |
| 20 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
| 21 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 22 | But if you believe that there is a God then they are working for you in the sense that , for them , to pray is to work . |
| 23 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 24 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 25 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 26 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 27 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 28 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 29 | He was waiting for her in the lounge . |
| 30 | She put down the receiver , feeling much happier , and even enjoyed the lukewarm haddock that was waiting for her in the kitchen . |