Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
2 | ‘ We are alone just for the moment . ’ |
3 | If there are a lot of special conditions , they are generally there for a reason , and one has to try to work out why . |
4 | I do n't think most of these questions apply to you actually because they 're mostly like for the kind of older women , I was gon na ask them about how they er coped with the , you know , running a house and |
5 | We should be , we we 're only here for a little while cos I 'm going to spend some time with the girls cos I ai n't see their |
6 | And he ca n't blame us for singing ‘ You 're Only Here For The Money etc ’ when we travel to Ewood Park . |
7 | you 're only there for an hour or so you may have , I do n't know , twenty minutes of appropriate sociability which builds a rapport tremendously well |
8 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
9 | You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ? |
10 | ‘ So I take it that you 're just here for a holiday , on your own , Miss Fenemore ? |
11 | We 're just down for the weekend to air the place out and run the heating . |
12 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
13 | How , erm , are still here for the moment , I mean |
14 | Professionals and local authority employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain , but the blockbuster moves — 600 in the Lloyds retail banking arm into the Bristol area in 1989-91 , and 100 British Aerospace workers into the Plymouth region recently — are probably over for the immediate future . |
15 | ‘ Nobody 's been past here for a good fifteen minutes , ’ said Malpass suddenly . |
16 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
17 | We should be all right for a few moments as it is deeper water ; we can then make for the beach , hopefully avoiding the big dumping surf . ’ |
18 | That would not be all right for a priest . |
19 | The Stage Manager would give him the line , he 'd be all right for a couple more sentences , then , ‘ Sorry , it 's gone again . ’ |
20 | She 'll be all right for a few hours . |
21 | ‘ This 'll be all right for the Ancient Britons as well , ’ he said brandishing ‘ The Stein Song ’ , 'I 'll give it to Mike when we go over . ’ |
22 | ‘ We 'll be all right for the night . ’ |
23 | Although it may be all right for the spokesman for the Opposition to talk about taking no measures , surely from all parts of the Province there is a cry for a security policy now to carry out what his own colleagues said would have to be done : to extirpate the IRA ? |
24 | ‘ He 'll be all right for the pageant , I promise you . ’ |
25 | It was pretty old and too small now , making me look skinnier than I was , but it would be all right for the trip . |
26 | But okay you 're going to be all right for the concert a week on Friday ? |
27 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
28 | ‘ Katherine , you 'll be pleased to know that I 'm only here for a few days . |
29 | I 'm only here for a handjob . |
30 | I 'm only here for the beer in the first place and , the way I see it , if old skull-face came knocking on my door with his scythe at least I could get my laughing gear around some of that celestial scrumpy ! |