Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 5 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 6 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 7 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 9 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 10 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 11 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 12 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 13 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 14 | We 're ignoring them for the moment . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 17 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 18 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 19 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 21 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 22 | We 're taking you for a check-up at the Royal Infirmary . ’ |
| 23 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 26 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 27 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 28 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 29 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 30 | 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 . |