Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1971 I was hoping for great things , because the British Open was at Birkdale , my home-course , but Tom could n't handle Birkdale . |
| 2 | If you know the type of this you 're looking for , then you can get free use of paper , stamps and a telephone , in fact anything that 'll get you that ideal position . |
| 3 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |
| 4 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 5 | Can you possibly remember how much you were paid for your apprenticeship with Amos ? |
| 6 | They do n't work out how much they 're paying for their money |
| 7 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 8 | In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones . |
| 9 | This example serves to indicate how comparatively easy it is to legislate for change and how difficult it can be to implement the legislation . |
| 10 | After being arrested by the Securitate , Lupescu is dragged in chains before Ceauşescu , who demands to know how much he is paid for his jokes . |
| 11 | A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview . |
| 12 | so it was , even then , it was summer after that she was trying for Em , it was two years after . |
| 13 | and doing that you 're paying for the opportunity of having erm other services |
| 14 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 15 | At 21 she is set for stardom , but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times . |
| 16 | he wo n't let them talk , it 's disgusting , I tell ya , you know , no end of times I 've been in there and it 's obvious we 're waiting for chips |
| 17 | Sadly , the momentum gathered in the early days of my crusade had fizzled out by April , when it became obvious we were heading for Division One . |
| 18 | In the summer of 1940 he was volunteered for parachute training by friends who added his name to a list for this course . |
| 19 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 20 | ‘ As usual we 're looking for areas of improvement , ’ said Ron . |
| 21 | It was possible we were headed for the marshes . |
| 22 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 23 | Erm I I know with certainty that the thirty five hectare that we 're ask hectares that we 're asking for can be achieved , because we know the sites that er that where development will take place . |
| 24 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's all I was watching for . |
| 26 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 27 | One slip of the tongue would have betrayed all I was working for . |
| 28 | And all , all I 'm looking for there are the reasons for those figures being so much different from bridge and P Way . |
| 29 | All I 'm waiting for right , is for somebody to set a precedent for for erm doing people for manslaughter because of secondary lung cancer then you 're fucking history sonny . |
| 30 | But all I 'm asking for is an all-glass tank four feet long , and around 18″ × 18″ so that I can watch my shoals patrolling its full length . |