Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been seeing him regularly for a few months now . |
| 2 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 3 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 4 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 5 | They had , it transpired , been training one up for some time . |
| 6 | No UK broadcast date has been fixed , but Sky are picking it up for autumn. , In the meantime , Bart is appearing in bootlegged form on American dance flyers and T-shirts everywhere . |
| 7 | You 're spelling everything out for them , 'cos the poor dears are n't very bright , are they ? |
| 8 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 9 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 10 | But it 's always will , will , will in advance but you 're asking them immediately for more money . |
| 11 | Equally , the couple may not be able to ask the parents for a hand-out if they 're doing it largely for their own satisfaction . |
| 12 | You just do n't know what you 're letting yourself in for , meddling with me . ’ |
| 13 | Boats from Bodrum quayside do the same thing , though it 's difficult to tell if you 're letting yourself in for a one way job , or a round trip including a meal at some distant restaurant ! |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't know what you 're letting yourself in for . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 've no idea what you 're letting yourselves in for . ’ |
| 16 | they have no idea what they 're letting themselves in for . |
| 17 | selling so they wan na know exactly what they 're letting themselves in for . |
| 18 | But do they realize just what they 're letting themselves in for . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not quite sure what we 're letting ourselves in for , Sam . |
| 20 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 21 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 22 | We 're putting something out for public debate and we 've got to get it out now . ’ |
| 23 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 24 | Doctors at the East London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering are sending him home for Christmas with his family in Chingford , Essex . |
| 25 | And those have gone home while I 've been doing something else for them , they 've gone , and left me ! |
| 26 | ‘ I read some of the things Jack said about me , and although it is n't exactly something I re-read every night , I suppose I must have been doing something right for him to make these kind comments . |
| 27 | You already know and experience speech subconsciously because you have been doing it successfully for years and years and years . |
| 28 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 29 | ‘ Lots of jazz players have been doing it now for six or seven years and are on a level with the Americans . |
| 30 | Nearly always some compromise can be reached with the vendor , depending on whether it is a buyer 's or a seller 's market , but at least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you 've been through everything with a fine tooth comb , that you 've done the best you possibly can and know what you are letting yourself in for ! |