Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] for [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was destined for great things — Oxford or Cambridge , a string of letters after my name , a successful academic career , and would no doubt end up being the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 2 | You 're destined for big things obviously . |
| 3 | We do n't do very good at reading and writing , but we 're made for physical things . ’ |
| 4 | She liked Yeats well enough , and although poetry meant little to her , she could see that he was destined for great things . |
| 5 | Even earlier , as a diplomat in Beijing and at the United Nations in New York in the 1950s , then as a high-flyer at the elbow of two heads of the Foreign Office , he was marked for big things . |