Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope this peels of without chaffing the sleeve , because I 'm up for the record itself . |
| 2 | I suppose I 'm in for the mother of all court-martials . ’ |
| 3 | I am pleased we are to meet at 5p.m. or thereabouts at Waterloo on Wednesday , 8th February when I 'm down for the Co-ordinators , to take a close look at the programme for our Scottish National Conference on 10–12 March at the Scottish Churches House , Dunblane , in which you , Ingrid Keith and Mauricio Laborde , Chile , are to share . |
| 4 | Well I says , I 'm awfully sorry I 'm out for the day on Tuesday . |
| 5 | ANNETTE BENING : ‘ I was up for the part of a prostitute in Dangerous Liaisons , the one whose backside John Malkovich uses to write a letter . |
| 6 | I was along for the ride . |
| 7 | This means that while you are out for the evening , anyone who may be watching the house will be unsure as to whether you are at home or not , because various lights will go on and off at different times . |
| 8 | You 're down for the floor . |
| 9 | You 'll also find a Slow-set control which will cook a casserole to perfection while you 're out for the day doing something more interesting . |
| 10 | ‘ Will you be back for the weekend ? ’ |
| 11 | I had the distinct impression that you were out for the kill ! ’ |
| 12 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 13 | But she 's in she 's in for the championship , and then there 's a president 's club |
| 14 | She 's along for the ride . ’ |
| 15 | I have a sense of who 's up for the game , how guys feel , how they 're going to play . |
| 16 | She is out for the evening to celebrate at her favourite local restaurant . |
| 17 | ‘ She was up for the entire morning , and this afternoon she must rest . |
| 18 | She was about to risk departing for an early lunch , a move which she would not have dared to make if Miss Coldharbour had been in the office , but Julia gathered she was out for the morning and not expected in until two fifteen . |
| 19 | The chances are , however , that whichever way the cookie is crumbled on April 9 we are in for the shake-up we were denied with the departure of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | We are in for the long-term benefits which imply a long-term strategy and involvement ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're on for the night then ? ’ |
| 22 | On the table a note addressed to her : " We 're off for the weekend . |
| 23 | Whenever we 're out together they wo n't go near a food shop , even if we 're out for the whole day . |
| 24 | We were in for the worst . |
| 25 | They are along for the duration . |
| 26 | DON T BE MISLED , whether Socialists run in their true colours , or in an underhand way as ‘ Labour ’ or ‘ Cooperative ’ , they are out for the same end , and your only remedy is to VOTE THEM DOWN . |
| 27 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 28 | I think they 're along for the purpose of camouflage , respectability , if you will . |
| 29 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 30 | But then , as the new , more streamlined , machine slips into the twentieth century , moving smoothly and with a new confidence — and by now virtually everybody is along for the ride — it crashes catastrophically . |