Example sentences of "we [vb base] be [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 2 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 3 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 4 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 5 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 6 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 7 | ‘ With petrol ambulances , we have been budgeting for a fuel consumption of about 11 mpg . |