Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had withdrawn early with his guests , for they were bent on leaving next morning , and their business with him was not for the openness of the hall . |
| 2 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
| 3 | He is away for a few days , in the country . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Since , however , he is away for a couple of days , there is little possibility of your doing that ! ’ |
| 5 | Summers was quoted in national newspapers as saying : ‘ If Sugar thinks we are a run of the mill first division club , he is in for a big shock . |
| 6 | He is in for the ride , so he must be on the payroll . |
| 7 | Tony announces that he is off for a crumble , an expression that has taken his fancy and replaced the computerese of going for a ‘ system dump . ’ |
| 8 | If a woman fucks a lot of men , each one fears he 's up for a rating . ’ |
| 9 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 10 | ‘ How do you know he 's here for the whole summer ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He 's out for a walk at present , Jack . |
| 12 | True , it is Crush drummer Ric Menck 's ( 30th ) birthday , and he 's out for a grinningly good time , whatever the weather . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's out for the moment , do you mean ? ’ |
| 14 | So MacDonald reckons he 's in for a hard night at Broomfield on Tuesday . |
| 15 | Margaret 's oldest son is nine and he knows that Richard is in prison , but that he 's there for a crime he did n't commit . |
| 16 | I see arts students ' timetables , an English student comes in for two hours a week , and he 's home for the rest of the time . |
| 17 | A sick thing , he 's off for a week . |
| 18 | He 's back for the Ipswich game which I 'm going to try to go to but not sure yet . |
| 19 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 20 | Perhaps he was away for the weekend . |
| 21 | Luckily he was wholly for the Ashleys . |
| 22 | He hoped Barbara could read the sub-text here : that if she was offering him some kind of invitation — and he was not for a moment suggesting that he was worthy of such a thing if she were — then he was regretfully declining it , on the understanding that both of them knew why . |
| 23 | He was also for the first time vaguely troubled about the DIA 's priorities in the Middle East , particularly with respect to the Western hostages in Beirut . |
| 24 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |
| 25 | If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition . |
| 26 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 27 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 28 | ‘ He was here for a while . |
| 29 | He was all for the idea , and we exchanged addresses . |
| 30 | Macmillan replied urbanely that he was all for the plan , adding : |