Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] what [pron] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I forget what they were for . |
| 2 | I know what they 're for Chris , but I do n't know what he 's doing with them . |
| 3 | ‘ I know what it 's for , ’ stated Frick coldly . |
| 4 | I wonder what they 're for ? |
| 5 | They 're called sandbags , do you know what they were 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 | 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 . |