Example sentences of "i be [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island .
2 Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July .
3 He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years .
4 ‘ But please do n't believe that I 'm pining away for the lack of a man in my life .
5 I 'm leaving shortly for the Ministry . ’
6 I 'm sticking up for the little bless him .
7 ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted .
8 ‘ Jackie , you do n't understand , I 'm going down for the big one . ’
9 At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 .
10 But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’
11 At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there .
12 I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old .
13 I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds .
14 In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child .
15 And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years .
16 The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ?
17 The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run .
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