Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 2 | Oldham are to continue their search for a replacement for the injured Jon Hallworth after also hearing that any move for Grobbelaar — rated at around £400,000 — would be beset by complications . |
| 3 | The earliest the matter can be raised again is in January when the new Congress returns , and although if the benefit is reintroduced it may well be retroactive to1 January , potential donors are biding their time for the moment . |
| 4 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 5 | ‘ Aye , after a battle once you have recited your thanksgivings , or prior to a campaign , while you are girding your soul for a crusade as now , as blessedly now — many of you may yearn to kneel in your cell with saw and magnilens , with rasp and buffing wheel and carbide graver , with brush and inkhorn . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 7 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 8 | Do n't think they 're getting their value for money off this tape . |
| 9 | I think they like to hold that position that they 're doing their bit for the school . |
| 10 | well wait a minute I 've got get me purse better make sure I 've got some money with me had n't I ? oh there 's plenty there here you are , oh do n't take your shoes off Bryony , fasten them up look , here you are if you 're carrying my bag for me |
| 11 | The ex-Soviet Union , the world 's second-largest producer , has been selling its gold for what it would fetch , to pay its bills . |
| 12 | A couple are suing their bank for half a million pounds because they say it bungled advice on small business and forced them into debt . |
| 13 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 14 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 15 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 16 | Police are renewing their appeal for help from the public . |
| 17 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 18 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |
| 19 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 20 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 21 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 22 | He 's been running his shop for the past 30 years , selling everything from garters to saddles ! |
| 23 | At its worst extreme , and particularly where the panel is a voluntary committee , all of whom are giving their time for nothing , the selection may well be made without all the panel having interviewed the candidate . |
| 24 | I it it still seems to me every time I read the policy that it 's a lot more flexible than most people are giving it credit for frankly . |
| 25 | In our society others are doing our thinking for us , a concept Mill and Rousseau wanted to prevent . |
| 26 | I am reserving your request for a copy of the tape until I hear from you , and would appreciate knowing whether you or NEC Central Lab will be going ahead with the order . |
| 27 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 28 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 29 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 30 | North Staffs are continuing their search for a mainline diesel but a recent visit to MC Metals in Glasgow to examine their ‘ Peaks ’ found a disappointing collection of cannibalised , sorry looking , Sulzers . |