Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 5 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 8 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 9 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 10 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 11 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 12 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 13 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 14 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 15 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 16 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ … and this is Folly , who will be joining us for the first time this weekend . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 20 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 21 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 22 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 23 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 24 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 25 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 26 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 27 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 28 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 29 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 30 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |