Example sentences of "be [noun prp] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of the fellows talk of coming back here in peacetime , but it will be England for us , Anne , once I 'm safely home . ’ |
| 2 | She replied ‘ simply : ‘ One day reading the Bible I was struck by the simple and loving demands of Jesus on his disciples and the intolerable demands of those who claimed to be Christ for me . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's Bacton for you , sir . |
| 4 | We will return to Royston for a while but then it 's Scotland for me and France for you . |
| 5 | But that 's Tom for you . |
| 6 | He may be the author of the best-selling management book of all time but ‘ that 's Tom for you . |
| 7 | Fr. indicates that for St Paul and for us this poses three questions : ( 1 ) Who is Jesus ? ( 2 ) Who is Jesus for me ? ( 3 ) Who am I ? |
| 8 | That 's Catherine for you in n it ? |
| 9 | ‘ It 's Davey for you . ’ |
| 10 | Well , that 's Danny for you ; he ca n't even faint without saying goodbye in C.B. |
| 11 | That 's Metallica for ya : even at this outrageous level , still favouring spit over spandex . |
| 12 | I thought it was Ben yesterday afternoon I dropped Lynsey 's thing in with Ben down there and it 's Jack , I like John , I like to speak to John , so I said John I think it 's Tommy for you , but then |
| 13 | That 's Peter for you . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's MacQuillan for you , ’ said Harbury with a shrug . |
| 15 | Here 's Brendan for you . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's America for you ’ Agnes said shaking out her hastily packed clothes . |
| 17 | That was Danny for you . |