Example sentences of "be [verb] for [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle . |
| 3 | I would be looking for someone like the Beresfords ' youngest daughter — innocence , childlike freshness and beauty . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 5 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 6 | As a result , a patient can relate to one group of staff during the waking hours , and knows that the same staff will be caring for him during the night period . |
| 7 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 8 | For all she knew , Molassi could be waiting for her at the bottom , his knife drawn , standing over the body of Rodomonte . |
| 9 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
| 10 | I 'd get a phone call from his secretary and then a limousine would be waiting for me down the lane . |
| 11 | ‘ No doubt the news will be waiting for me around the garrison by now , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Will Mum and Dad be waiting for me in the hall ? |
| 13 | They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that . |
| 14 | I would be waiting for him outside the room and would suggest that he too withdraw a minor claim ; then add a new demand . |
| 15 | He should be waiting for you in the transport yard at the back . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Sophia will be waiting for us at the vicarage , ’ said Mrs Grandison . |
| 17 | Governors will , therefore , depend heavily upon the guidance and information which can be provided for them within the school . |
| 18 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 21 | I 'll never be mistaken for him in the street then . |
| 22 | His recipes could never be mistaken for anything but the recipes of an educated Frenchman . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was so modest , reticent , and reserved that his paper on his voyage of 1880 , given at the Royal Geographical Society , had to be read for him by the secretary . |