Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] it [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you should n't of spent your money , I told you it was for you , not for me ! |
| 2 | ‘ I know what it 's for , ’ stated Frick coldly . |
| 3 | ‘ You could n't bear the thought , could you , of that girl , that nice young girl , being mistress here ? you told yourself it was for me , all for me . ’ |
| 4 | Apparently she told you it was for ‘ those poor disabled people with artificial limbs . ’ |
| 5 | Can you see who it 's for ? |
| 6 | The potty is always nearby , and I feel absolutely convinced she knows what it 's for . |
| 7 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 8 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 9 | Compare , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through things being absent ’ ; and , ‘ One learns what it is for something to be absent through noticing the absence of things ’ . |
| 10 | They assured me it was for make-up and wardrobe only . |
| 11 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |