Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took courage , stopped , looked my questioner straight in the eye and said , ‘ I come from Fontanellato by tram and I am here for the same reason as you are . |
| 2 | Chapter 10 comes back from Utopia — and I am all for Utopia — to the question of ‘ How is it to be done ? ’ |
| 3 | It 's a big challenge and I 'm up for it . ’ |
| 4 | You said you 'd be in London for several weeks and I 'm here for a month . ’ |
| 5 | Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks . |
| 6 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 7 | So a week later I moved in , and I was there for a year-and-a-half . |
| 8 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 9 | And I was there for the erm oh about fourteen months in all with the shooting . |
| 10 | And I was there for twenty five years . |
| 11 | I was waving but no-one would stop and I was there for nearly half an hour before a man pulled over and helped me . |
| 12 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 13 | and I was there for nigh on two and a half years and er , then we moved from there to Germany |
| 14 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 15 | Woke up one morning and I was in for twenty thousand . |
| 16 | We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks . |
| 17 | And you 're there for quali qualified rather than just the licensed trade would that be ? |
| 18 | A happier period is ahead , rather than of late , and you 're in for some high times with plenty of hilarity . |
| 19 | That 's if you get that far — finish behind any of the computer-controlled racers and you 're in for a permanent pit-stop ! |
| 20 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 21 | and you were there for half past five . |
| 22 | and she 's off for eleven full days and John could only afford to supply the three of them . |
| 23 | They took both of us down the block , and we were there for two days — no blankets , no bed , nothing , just a mattress on the floor . |
| 24 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 25 | That 's a good idea , that 's why I 've sat out here tonight darling , not watched the telly , cos there 's a lot of nasties in those sort of films and they 're not for little children |
| 26 | The mine-workers have always preferred lengthy day-release courses for active members , usually organised through extra-mural departments of the WEA and pre-dating the 1975 entitlements , to the more limited TUC courses ( more limited in three senses : they are shorter , they are role training , and they are only for representatives ) . |
| 27 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 28 | It was a Sunday afternoon and they were out for a stroll in the park . |
| 29 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 30 | Helvin moved in , and they were together for a decade . |