Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the reasons for my downfall is that I am a rep for Taunton Cider , and one of the first things Yvonne told me was to keep off alcohol . ’ |
| 2 | As you know , I am a tutor for Admissions of an Oxford College and part of the task is to visit schools . |
| 3 | I am a catalyst for change . |
| 4 | But I am a match for Kenamun , and you are forgetting our mutual friend . ’ |
| 5 | BE IT Coquilles St Jacques on an Atlantic-facing terrace in Brittany , or battered cod in the office canteen , I am a sucker for seafood . |
| 6 | I sometimes feel I 'm a magnet for trouble . |
| 7 | I 'm a stickler for the truth — |
| 8 | Ah , ha , I 'm a stickler for standards . |
| 9 | If my costume gets ripped then I 'm a wreck for the rest of the performance unless they do something . |
| 10 | The Franks have chosen to play a version of The Monkees ' I 'm A Believer for the NME 's charity covers album , ‘ Ruby Trax ’ . |
| 11 | I 'm a seconder for that ? |
| 12 | I 'm a trustee for the beauty without cruelty charity |
| 13 | I 'm a sucker for middle-class comforts . |
| 14 | Fig 7 ) The intro from It 's Only Love is one of my personal favourites ( I 'm a sucker for anything that uses the old White Room ploy ! ) . |
| 15 | I 'm a sucker for pretty wood finishes and would probably have requested a much more translucent look than the one I see here . |
| 16 | I 'm a sucker for coastal walking and am naturally attracted to Dorset as it offers some of the best in the country . |
| 17 | Look , I 'm a sucker for that sort of thing . |
| 18 | It 's a good job that , he did n't take that mug that I 've got , I 'm a mug for a reason |
| 19 | ‘ Because I like the fashion , and because I 'm an activist for what I believe in . |
| 20 | I 'm an inspector for the local education authority . ’ |
| 21 | For a number of seasons , before I began teaching at New York University and going to the Horn of Africa during the early part of the season , I was a tipster for the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 22 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 23 | Limited as my graces are , I was a stickler for manners and etiquette , which my Dad-in-law thought of as ‘ turnin' 'em into poofs ’ . |
| 24 | We met when she came with the chairman of one of the big contractors to lobby me about increasing the road-building programme , when I was a spokesman for Transport . |
| 25 | ‘ I was a policeman for twelve years in Jordan before I joined the Black June . |
| 26 | ‘ I was a mercenary for a time , ’ he said abruptly . |
| 27 | However the event showed me I was a fool for entertaining a sense even of surprise . |
| 28 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
| 29 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
| 30 | I was a bodyguard for a little while — not a very successful one , really , I was the weediest bodyguard that you 've ever seen , but I was hired to look after the Sheikh of Quatar — she 's a female . |