Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Who can they turn to if the native landowners and the French are against them ? " |
2 | now this being about it being a permanent record could be positive or negative |
3 | It is quite true that the Americans were at least as worried about the British as the British were about them , but for very different reasons . |
4 | ‘ Do I have to spell out to you how important this is to me ? ’ |
5 | SERAFIN : You 've no idea how deeply helpful all this is to me in a private capacity . |
6 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
7 | Ah this is to you , cos we 've swapped directions again |
8 | Oh shit I want this one this is to you , no |
9 | ‘ This is on me . ’ |
10 | Ca n't you see how miserable he is , how difficult all this is for him ? |
11 | The point of his advice is not just to authorise " medeled liyf " which the lord is anyhow pursuing : He can cut from one kind of state to the other with joy ; this is for him precisely how love is to be ordained . |
12 | Doing something you like , if you can give yourself half an hour , or an hour , you know just say this is for me , and for me only . |
13 | ‘ Are you sure that this is for me , Joe ? ’ |
14 | One way of addressing this is for me to continue to highlight some of the views of colleagues who have not , in the public mind at least , been closely associated with the anti-Federalist cause and several of whom were not , for instance , among the eighty-odd Conservative Members who signed one or both of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motions . |
15 | ‘ And this is for me . ’ |
16 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
17 | You pick it up and you thumb through and you think , you look at a headline , you look at a picture , you first look at a first paragraph and you think , ‘ This is , this is for me . ’ |
18 | So this is for them . |
19 | This is for them tomorrow |
20 | ‘ This is for us , Nathan , you and me . |
21 | ‘ That was for you ; this is for us , ’ he murmured indistinctly and took her mouth , exploring it with a passion that Paige returned twofold , arousing a mutual need for satisfaction . |
22 | If you enjoy your food and do n't want to eat less , but do want to lose weight and reduce the risk of heart disease , this is for you . |
23 | ‘ Surely this is for you , ’ I answered . |
24 | If you do — or you know someone who does , then this is for you . |
25 | This is for you to include other outgoings that you want to make sure you have catered for . |
26 | ‘ By the way , this is for you . ’ |
27 | When Mahmoud came in with a radio playing and said , ‘ Tirry , this is for you , ’ there was a moment 's hush while we all thought , ‘ It must be a joke . ’ |
28 | " All this is for you , " Gabriel said to the second brother . |
29 | ‘ This is for you , ’ he said , picking it up and offering it to her . |
30 | ‘ This is for you . ’ |