Example sentences of "here for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was scope here for a young lad with ability . |
| 2 | It felt strange — no , it felt right that we should all know each other , as it were automatically : we , who had gathered here for a preternatural purpose . |
| 3 | Nursing staff on some of those areas that we would pick out — those would be the intensive care units , the children 's units , the delivery suites and special care baby units — the nursing staff actually have control of permits which they can issue to relatives who are going to be here for a great length of time , and if they so feel that these relatives should n't be charged , they give them a permit and they park in a staff area at no charge whatsoever . |
| 4 | I do n't like any barriers , so I 'm always here for a new care assistant to see . |
| 5 | But I have n't called you here for a professional opinion . ’ |
| 6 | Our lawyer took the idea to the court , and the judge altered the terms of Rickie 's bail to let him come here for a therapeutic cruise . |
| 7 | ‘ But I still get the feeling that you are here for a definite reason . ’ |
| 8 | No , I 'm here for a late convalescence . |
| 9 | There is a real feel here for a developing area of research , which avoids giving a misleading impression that the current state of the art provides any ultimate answers , handed down on tablets of stone from above . |
| 10 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |
| 11 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 13 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 15 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |
| 16 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 17 | Opposition Back-Bench Members have been questioning my right hon. and hon. Friends and myself on the basis that we shall be here for a long time , whereas Front-Bench spokesmen still nurse the occasional illusion . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 19 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 20 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 21 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 22 | He said : ‘ People come here for a good night out , the restaurant is always busy and we are opening a new betting shop at the track where punters will be able to place bets tax free . |
| 23 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 24 | ‘ We are here for a good time , it is n't a crusade , but we want to win , ’ said Masters champion Couples . |
| 25 | And Couples warned : ‘ We are here for a good time , but we want to win . |
| 26 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're here for a straight account of Princess 's voyage — all three sides of it ; Bristol to Africa to Jamaica and back — not a social gathering , though I 'm the last to turn up me nose at a good meal . ’ |
| 28 | There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't come here for a boozy evening . ’ |
| 30 | There 's a club meeting here for a social weekend — I think they like to keep their places warm here for when coarse fishing starts again . |