Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Been seeing him for years . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 3 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 4 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 5 | Obviously she will often clash with the adults who are grooming her for life . |
| 6 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 7 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 8 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 9 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 10 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 11 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 12 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 13 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 14 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 16 | They 're training you for war . |
| 17 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 18 | and you 're calling it for ages but you ca n't go near it cos it will run away and it goes like this to you , it goes |
| 19 | ‘ You 're asking me for secrets of the confessional . ’ |
| 20 | You 're doing it for charity does it I mean is that |
| 21 | Not that she 'll recognize ye , her sight 's none too good , but we 've been tellin' her for days ye 'd be coming . ’ |
| 22 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 23 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |
| 24 | Models have been wearing them for years . |
| 25 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 26 | They are buying them for business . |
| 27 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 28 | Accordingly I am invoicing you for £75 ( and CNRS separately for £75 ) on the understanding that the tapes will be used only for this joint research and that you will be separably and jointly bound by the conditions of the contract . |
| 29 | Accordingly , I am invoicing you for £75 ( and Vassar separately for £75 ) on the understanding that the tapes will be used only for this joint research and that you will be separately and jointly bound by the conditions of the contract , a copy of which is attached . |
| 30 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |