Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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1 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
2 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
3 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
4 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
5 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
6 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
7 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
8 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
9 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
10 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
11 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
12 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
13 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
14 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
15 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
16 | We 're taking you for a check-up at the Royal Infirmary . ’ |
17 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
18 | So if we 've got somebody earning nine thousand , they 're going to want to know why they 're insuring themselves for a hundred thousand on living insurance benefit . |
19 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
20 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
21 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
22 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
23 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
24 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
25 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
26 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
27 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
28 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
29 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
30 | She 's been recording us for an hour |