Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 3 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 4 | Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day . |
| 5 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 6 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 7 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 8 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 9 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 10 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 11 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 12 | You are in for some surprises . |
| 13 | He suggested that in the days before his election Yeltsin had had to clarify and adjust his policy on a number of key issues , but commented : " If he is playing political games , then perhaps we are in for difficult times . " |
| 14 | If he succeeds in stirring up tabloid backing again with ‘ the people 's champion against the gin-and-tonic brigade ’ , the theme of 1984 , then Yorkshire are in for another incendiary winter . |
| 15 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 16 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 17 | His assistant Julian immediately offers me coffee , and explains in apologetic tones that Tony has been called out — ‘ but you 're down for 11.30 ’ — and that he 's expecting him back any moment . |
| 18 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 19 | You 're in for four lectures are n't you ? |
| 20 | A happier period is ahead , rather than of late , and you 're in for some high times with plenty of hilarity . |
| 21 | " We 're in for some mysterious trouble , " whispered Fiver , " and it 's not elil . |
| 22 | An Injun' yelled ‘ White men … we 're in for some fightin' … they 're not having our bison to eat . ’ |
| 23 | I can tell you you 're in for some trouble if you start that because I I is you you 're all in trouble if you want to start these smaller committees , we have looked at the committees and as I say we make no apology for the number of committees or the number that 's on 'em . |
| 24 | Oh you 're in for some fun . |
| 25 | ‘ The radio says we 're in for heavy showers , ’ Aunt Becky glooms . |
| 26 | Tony 's back now so we 're off for some gnocchi . |
| 27 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 28 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 29 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 30 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |