Example sentences of "be [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 2 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 3 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 4 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 5 | You are in for some surprises . |
| 6 | If he succeeds in stirring up tabloid backing again with ‘ the people 's champion against the gin-and-tonic brigade ’ , the theme of 1984 , then Yorkshire are in for another incendiary winter . |
| 7 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 8 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 9 | A happier period is ahead , rather than of late , and you 're in for some high times with plenty of hilarity . |
| 10 | " We 're in for some mysterious trouble , " whispered Fiver , " and it 's not elil . |
| 11 | An Injun' yelled ‘ White men … we 're in for some fightin' … they 're not having our bison to eat . ’ |
| 12 | I can tell you you 're in for some trouble if you start that because I I is you you 're all in trouble if you want to start these smaller committees , we have looked at the committees and as I say we make no apology for the number of committees or the number that 's on 'em . |
| 13 | Oh you 're in for some fun . |
| 14 | Tony 's back now so we 're off for some gnocchi . |
| 15 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 16 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 17 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 18 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 19 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 20 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 21 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 22 | He 's been out for some time . |
| 23 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 24 | Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about . |
| 25 | I 'm , there we are I 'm in for I 'm in for another two . |
| 26 | Whatever the weather throws up though , I know I 'm in for some good walking . |
| 27 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 28 | ‘ Looks like we 're going to be in for some pretty flamboyant fielding from the West Indies ’ |
| 29 | We could be in for some dramatic sea level changes because of climatic change ; volcanic action could have quite a bearing on that . |
| 30 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |