Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adv] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should be all right for a few moments as it is deeper water ; we can then make for the beach , hopefully avoiding the big dumping surf . ’ |
| 2 | This should be all right for hours now . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They might be all right for magazines or even upmarket newspapers , but they were useless on pops . |
| 5 | It might be all right for Daniel : his purposes possibly included its transfiguration or consecration or whatever words from whatever language he chose to describe it in . |
| 6 | you 'll be up there for seven in the morning |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be back tomorrow for the china , then , Ma . |
| 8 | ‘ This 'll be all right for the Ancient Britons as well , ’ he said brandishing ‘ The Stein Song ’ , 'I 'll give it to Mike when we go over . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Tide 's on the way out so she 'll be all right for now . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll be all right for the night . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He 'll be all right for the pageant , I promise you . ’ |
| 12 | She 'll be all right for a few hours . |
| 13 | We could be up here for er |
| 14 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |
| 15 | The Stage Manager would give him the line , he 'd be all right for a couple more sentences , then , ‘ Sorry , it 's gone again . ’ |
| 16 | If this makes them pause , even briefly , it may be just enough for the prey to escape . |
| 17 | Filgueira suggests that , since the major educational developments have taken place so recently , it may be too soon for them to have brought about greater reorganisation in society . |
| 18 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 19 | ’ 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 . |
| 20 | Although it may be all right for the spokesman for the Opposition to talk about taking no measures , surely from all parts of the Province there is a cry for a security policy now to carry out what his own colleagues said would have to be done : to extirpate the IRA ? |
| 21 | If she met the girl Marie on the way back there would be even more for her to tell Mademoiselle Rabier ! |
| 22 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 23 | It would be all right for her to talk to Nicholas then , it would look natural , no one could read anything into it . |
| 24 | It was pretty old and too small now , making me look skinnier than I was , but it would be all right for the trip . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's why the attendant said he supposed it would be all right for me to go in , ’ said Rachel . |
| 26 | Most men and women would be better off for not going to prison at all . |
| 27 | The sooner Wilson returns , however , the better it will be not only for the teams he plays for but for all of us . |
| 28 | The girls have now been moved to Bullwood Prison , near Southend but Ann and her husband Derek — a contract cleaner — are hopeful their girls will be home again for the New Year . |
| 29 | I have a feeling that this time it will be all right for her . |
| 30 | ‘ But one will be quite enough for most of you ’ |