Example sentences of "be here for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
2 | Then she told him calmly , shifting her gaze slightly , ‘ I can assure you I 'm here for one reason and for one reason only … in order to help your cousin with her English . ’ |
3 | I 'm here for some time , not forever . |
4 | ’ He could be here for any number of reasons … ’ |
5 | She gave me her apologies earlier for being unable to be here for this stage of the debate . |
6 | Oh you 're not going to be here for this joke so I , I said oh got ta let him down . |
7 | ‘ We will be here for some time . |
8 | I shall be here for some time . |
9 | ‘ I shall be here for some time . ’ |
10 | ‘ My men will be here for some time yet , and I 'll leave someone here on duty all night . |
11 | I shall be here for some time — I have to make detailed drawings and take photographs . |
12 | I 've been here for some time . |
13 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
14 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
15 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
16 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
17 | I am here for one year . |
18 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
19 | It meant they were here for some time . |
20 | First , a careful search ( takes 10 Turns ) of the alchemical section turns up two works of note : De Lapis Philosophorum in Bretonnian , and the small and quirky Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic ) ; the latter needs an I test to find it unless the adventurers know that it 's here for some reason . |