Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |
| 2 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 3 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 4 | The descriptions of them in the books we read are for the most part as unlike the truth as are the descriptions of aristocratic life in the books they read . |
| 5 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 6 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 7 | In fact , although the manual supplied with the machine I purchased was for a KH710 , the machine turned out to be a KH585 , possibly an earlier model . |
| 8 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 9 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 10 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
| 11 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 12 | Lot of the calls we get are for like Jackie or Coldwell , they 're not based here |
| 13 | The things I wrote were for you . |
| 14 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 15 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 16 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 17 | If the only claim you make is for broken glass in your cars windscreen or windows , including bodywork scratched by the breakage , it will not affect your no claim bonus or protected no claim bonus . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase . |
| 20 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 21 | And if MPs on the take are not parroting the opinions of these companies what can we suppose the money they receive is for ? |
| 22 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 23 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 24 | The last thing I want is for the case to be closed . |
| 25 | The last thing I want is for them to be used as pawns in political games of chess to suit the personal ambitions of politicians . |
| 26 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 27 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 28 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
| 29 | The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening . |
| 30 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |