Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 2 | Then I arrive in America , I make Robocop and I 'm grilled for the violence . |
| 3 | I make Total Recall and I 'm grilled for the violence . |
| 4 | I make Basic Instinct … and I 'm grilled for the violence . ’ |
| 5 | My lack of culinary expertise has always been a source of great mirth to the men in my life and my well-attended failures embroidered into legends over the years , so I was prepared for the banter that accompanied dinner . |
| 6 | Even so , I do n't believe I was prepared for the facts . |
| 7 | So you could say I was prepared for the ‘ English way of Life ’ from what I 'd read . |
| 8 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 9 | I was intended for the religious life . |
| 10 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 11 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 12 | Jan Holt , director , explains : ‘ I realised something had to be done when , on a recent trip abroad , I was mistaken for the hotel lift attendant . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 14 | And , if any other recommendation be needed , I was asked for the second time to be coach monitor on our outing to Brighton , so you can see that I must be OK . |
| 15 | I ca n't recall what I was paid for the film . |
| 16 | I was paid for the lessons not in money but in food , so we always had enough oil , sugar , cheese and butter — commodities that were now difficult to obtain . |
| 17 | No I did n't apply , I erm , although I was interviewed for the job . |
| 18 | Can I say that , when I was interviewed for the job of er , Director , or I was asked along with other applicants , to put forward a er paper presenting my issues and concerns , and I can say to you , equal opportunities was a key one there . |
| 19 | Melanie already knew I was popular with the fair sex , but when she discovered I was tipped for the top in my career as well she decided it might be a good idea to marry me . ’ |
| 20 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 21 | When we arrived at King 's Cross I was told for the sake of reality I must find my own way to the Savoy Hotel , although the film crew would be close by in case of emergency . |
| 22 | And I was angered for the dynasty |
| 23 | I was refused for the Rescue Service , you know . ’ |
| 24 | Luck plays a great part in success and as mine would have it , I was chosen for the pre-Christmas show . |
| 25 | I said that unless I was picked for the final leg I would n't run . |
| 26 | But I was picked for the bench against England and was in the clubhouse on the Saturday night before when someone said : ‘ Have you heard the news on the radio ? |
| 27 | The commonest and most important of these are pre-sentence reports ( formerly known as social inquiry reports ) , which are prepared for the court by probation officers ( or by social workers in the case of some juvenile offenders ) . |
| 28 | Brahe complies , and they enter into a description of the accelerator and the experiment , the details of which are covered for the reader ( not for them ) by the engine noise : |
| 29 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 30 | The sides of the tongue , which are raised for the preceding consonant , are lowered to allow air to escape over them ( this is called lateral release ) . |