Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 2 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 3 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 4 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 6 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 7 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 8 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 9 | We 're taking you for a check-up at the Royal Infirmary . ’ |
| 10 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 11 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 14 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 15 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 16 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 17 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 18 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 19 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 20 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 21 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 22 | The first customers for the new service will be using it for a variety of applications . |
| 23 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
| 24 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
| 25 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 26 | So after today , I shall not be cleaning you for a week . ’ |
| 27 | As you will be expecting me for a visit on your return tomorrow I am writing to let you know I shall not be attending your sessions again . |
| 28 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 29 | ‘ She 'll not likely be doing them for a while . ’ |
| 30 | you know after he gets out from here on a temporary basis sort of thing , so that erm Christopher says he 's gon na be doing it for a year this lecturing , but it 's very nice for him because he 'll be able to contact him and Bob will help him if it 's necessary |