Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't do very good at reading and writing , but we 're made for physical things . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Eric was late , ’ he said , ‘ but we were prepared for that and we waited . |
| 3 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 4 | We was in a two-bedroomed erm council flat but they were intended for old age pensioners like you know . |
| 5 | He began life as a commercial photographer and worked for Renault , but he was sacked for bad time keeping after late nights in the darkroom . |
| 6 | True , he went to rouse Sir Ralph but he was searched for any weapons , he had no key , and even if he had entered the room , favoured son or not , Sir Ralph would scarcely have offered his throat to be cut . ’ |
| 7 | " Your pal at the shipping office was n't hard to check on , because he 's been in our hands — no charge in the end , but he was detained for twenty-four hours while inquiries were made . |
| 8 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 9 | I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself . |