Example sentences of "i [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island . |
2 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
3 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
4 | I 'm given up for dead by now , I 'm accepted for dead . |
5 | " You know , Dad , I 'm not so sure that I 'm cut out for what you want me to be , " he said , and sipped his coffee with a pensive expression on his face . |
6 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted . |
7 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
8 | It 's just that there are some things the mind-set is not adjusted to and I was tuned in for bracing winds , long place names and snatches of Tom Jones . |
9 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
10 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
11 | After Seve 's win at Lytham I was worn out for a week . |
12 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
13 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
14 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
15 | I was laid up for five weeks , could n't do any work whatsoever and just sleep , cuss the family , be generally grumpy , tired and achy . |
16 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |