Example sentences of "i [vb base] [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I want is for the case to be closed . |
| 2 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ All I ask is for the manager to believe in me and to be wanted . |
| 4 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 7 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 8 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 9 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 10 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 13 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 15 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 16 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 17 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 18 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |