Example sentences of "[verb] they [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
| 2 | This may sound obvious , but it is surprising how many editors say they are for ever clearing out photographs which have no identification . |
| 3 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 4 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 5 | We asked men how well equipped they are for sex , both physically and mentally . |
| 6 | Jean Parmiter reported that tickets are now available for the Reunion — Please remember they are for Members Only and Teachers are reminded that membership cards may be checked at this and future events . |
| 7 | Reckon they 're for the kids really are n't they ? |
| 8 | When I buy them from the chemist , I pretend they 're for someone else . |
| 9 | ‘ It was only a joke but the school secretary , who had a heart condition , thought they were for real and nearly died , ’ says Betty Weller . |
| 10 | I did n't think you could get grants for your hobby ; I thought they were for businesses and things like that . |
| 11 | I thought they were for sore throats and things Gary ? |
| 12 | Yes , I think they 're for myself , . |
| 13 | ‘ Did she say they were for you ? ’ |