Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 5 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 6 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 7 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 8 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 9 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 10 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 11 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 12 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 13 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 15 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 16 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 17 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 18 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 19 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 20 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 21 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 22 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 23 | Mum , you 're worrying yourself for no reason . |
| 24 | We 're ignoring them for the moment . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 27 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 28 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 29 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |