Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 2 | Y'know , I ca n't deal with things ideologically , I am only here for practical information ’ . |
| 3 | Cormorants are only there for one reason : the lake is filled with fish . |
| 4 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 5 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |
| 6 | But we have been together now for 12 matches on tour , as well as facing New Zealand and world champions Australia . |
| 7 | We 've been together now for 40 years and … |
| 8 | THEY 'VE been together now for 25 years … and it do n't seem a day too much . |
| 9 | Now , all these things are not just for this woman , they were for you , and they 're for me . |
| 10 | Cables are not just for heavy garments . |
| 11 | Although some European jobs are advertised here , there are not enough for travel-hungry Brits . |
| 12 | Roget 's Thesaurus and a set of back copies of Zoom and Creative Review are not enough for this : creative people need , ideally , to have wide and varied interests , and a high level of curiosity about almost any subject under the sun . |
| 13 | They are not underground for any of a number of reasons — or they may be underground in another burrow system altogether . |
| 14 | Ovulation prediction tests are not only for those having problems conceiving . |
| 15 | I know I also feel happy because I 've been not here for most of the day . |
| 16 | But er who knows we 're probably here for another two years , we might find a dead body somewhere . |
| 17 | They 're back again for next few weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been up there for two days . |
| 19 | Street , and the bottom lamp has been out now for six weeks . |
| 20 | She 's been out now for twenty minutes |
| 21 | Gardner 's been out there for more than a decade , has been back and forth from the Qualifying School three times , has yet to win a tournament , and in a good year can make $150,000 . |
| 22 | When British forces assembled in the Gulf in 1990 , elements of the Armilla Patrol had been out there for most of the previous decade . |
| 23 | ’ It may be all right for those who choose happily , but think of the mistakes that could be avoided if people had a little help . |
| 24 | There is a great excitement at the opening of a brand new store , and this must be especially so for former staff who remember the old days . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not here for that . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not really for all this women 's lib business , but I go for what this young lady says . |
| 27 | very short — it 's sunday and i 'm just here for ten minutes . |
| 28 | It may be a light aircraft twenty miles away , in which case they will go in their own cars , or it may be on the other side of the world , in which case they will be on the next airline flight in that direction and might not be home again for several weeks . |
| 29 | you 'll be up there for seven in the morning |
| 30 | The red stockings and garters are stored away but you never know — they may soon be out again for another airing . |