Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the lads have been tremendous , and there 's a buzz around the club now all we want now is for them to show the same attitude tonight . ’ |
| 2 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 3 | Would not the best way to ensure that such a treaty would be accepted worldwide be for us to allow international inspection and verification of the numbers of our warheads ? |
| 4 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 5 | All that is needed now is for you all to take advantage of this week of Medau , either as a daily visitor , or residentially . |
| 6 | Now this techniques we 've been using here is for you can use that for any straight line graph . |
| 7 | ‘ The only thing that 's left now is for me to kiss you and wish you a very good night . ’ |
| 8 | All that is left now is for you to move in . |
| 9 | It had all been for nothing ; the fear , the guilt , the deaths … . |
| 10 | The mad drive up the M4 with pain like barbed hooks turning in his arm had all been for nothing . |
| 11 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 12 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 13 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 14 | The station had always been for her a place instinct with glory ; its function beautified it immeasurably in her eyes . |
| 15 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 16 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 17 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 18 | Now , the much-repeated phrase is : ‘ The past 40 years have all been for nought ’ . |
| 19 | I conducted the First Symphony during the war but the first two symphonies have always been for me a little to close to Tchaikovsky . |
| 20 | She had no intention of putting herself deeper into Luke 's bad books ; all she wanted now was for her involvement with Woodline Design to proceed peacefully to its end . |
| 21 | ‘ All we need now is for you to sign them , Monks . |