Example sentences of "is [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 2 | These are claimed by the purchaser of an industrial building who is using it for his or her own trade or leasing it to another for that person 's trade , at the rate of 4% per annum on cost . |
| 3 | The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies . |
| 4 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 5 | Well I suppose the way to stop is to thank you for your your attendance and declare the meeting closed . |
| 6 | The only way to handle excuses is to treat them for what they are and get on with the business of collecting your money . |
| 7 | That is what the Holy Spirit is given them for . |
| 8 | The least we can do is dress you for effect . |
| 9 | O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night . |
| 10 | SunSoft is selling it for $295 single-user . |
| 11 | DAVID BOWIE is to play it for laughs alongside funnyman Griff Rhys Jones in a new £1.5 million telly show . |
| 12 | The US KRCA-TV Channel 62 is to use it to enhance its programme distribution , video post-production and satellite links , including connections to local sport and entertainment venues and the San Francisco Satellite Centre , a divisions of Watson Communication Systems Inc is to use it for local connections to its satellite teleports for US and overseas transmissions . |
| 13 | He says the most obvious way is to use it for fireproof doors — for ceilings , lining internal paritions , all of which require to prevent fire going from one room to another for a given period of time . |
| 14 | He apologizes and hands me a note : Sir Thomas Fairfax is expecting me for dinner at Folly Farm . |
| 15 | ‘ Grandfather is expecting us for tea in the summer-house . ’ |
| 16 | If there is doubt , therefore , as to whether or not a document should be stamped , and if so with what duty , the safest course is to submit it for adjudication . |
| 17 | The Wantage white horses swim club are off to the Palace tomorrow … that 's the Crystal one … world number one Mark Foster is coaching them for the day … |
| 18 | She will think she is losing me for ever . |
| 19 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 20 | To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6 . |
| 21 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 22 | Sedgemore has improved so much since entering top grade rugby that club coach Alex Evans is tipping him for international honours . |
| 23 | Under a previous agreement , Unir is implementing it for iAPX-86 . |
| 24 | Right , now what I 'd like to do now is ask you for some of your , some names of friends of yours who , who I could go through the same process with them and , and establish their financial security for them too . |
| 25 | ‘ Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , is storing them for you until you get settled . ’ |
| 26 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |
| 27 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
| 28 | ‘ What I mean is do you for instance know the three-times table ? ’ |
| 29 | More , he is to equip them for their mission just as he had equipped Jesus for his . |
| 30 | John is saying , loud and clear , that the coming of the Spirit upon the Church is to equip it for evangelism . |