Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I want is for the case to be closed . |
| 2 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 3 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ All I ask is for the manager to believe in me and to be wanted . |
| 5 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 6 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , although the manual supplied with the machine I purchased was for a KH710 , the machine turned out to be a KH585 , possibly an earlier model . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 10 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 11 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 12 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 13 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 16 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 18 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 19 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 20 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 21 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 22 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
| 23 | It was a depressing and dispiriting experience , exactly as life itself has been for the young unemployed , day in and day out . |
| 24 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 25 | All that you behold is for the most part , simply broadcasting equipment . |
| 26 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 27 | The last thing she needed was for the plane to go without her . |
| 28 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
| 29 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 30 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |