Example sentences of "be for [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've no idea how good it 's been for me out here . |
| 2 | If it had n't been for you maybe I 'd be dead by now . ’ |
| 3 | With the possible exception of grant-maintained status , for which I personally find it very difficult to see any merit or justification , the other provisions with potential threat for children with special needs ( open enrolment and local financial management ) are for me rather like the curate 's egg . |
| 4 | Should we , because we 're for us today ? |
| 5 | I thought , I 'm for it now , but all she said when she 'd bustled in and taken the coal from the cart , was , 'Ere yar . |
| 6 | Postman , I have a Christmas parcel but the name on it is obliterated ca n't be for me then , my name 's Jones . |
| 7 | " They 've gone to turn out the Owsla , and then we 'll be for it right enough . " |
| 8 | Next one I did not complete the survey not because people were away , if people were absent that 's not your fault , what reasons might there be for you not completing the survey , hands up |
| 9 | And what advantage would that be for you then ? |
| 10 | Also , innovative ideas do tend to work their way down to the more affordable guitars and equipment , so it might not be for you now , but maybe in a year 's time it will be . |
| 11 | Must be for you too |
| 12 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 13 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 14 | We ca n't come next week , cos next week it 's on Thursday morning Wait a minute , that one 's for you Tim that one 's for me there we go . |
| 15 | But it 's for me too — I got such a buzz out of seeing the kids ’ faces at that show . |
| 16 | It 's for you tomorrow ! |
| 17 | What 's for you here ? |
| 18 | I do n't think it 's for you just now Charlotte . |
| 19 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 20 | This is for them tomorrow |
| 21 | It was as difficult for them to develop a public analysis of rape eight years ago as it is for them today publicly to acknowledge the extent of sexual abuse of girls and young women inside and outside the home . |
| 22 | As a result , their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object , but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him , to exploit his capacity for work without compensation , to use him sexually without his consent , to seize his possessions , to humiliate him , to cause him pain , to torture and to kill him . |
| 23 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 24 | And these negotiations are mostly conducted in a tone of high comedy ; after 1930 Pound 's anger is virtually monopolized by Roosevelt 's USA , and English culture is for him just something that he ca n't take seriously . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Third , her dispute with ‘ interpretation ’ , which is for her also a dispute with any kind of critical theory , is due to the assumptions of cultural differentiation built into the former and latter . |
| 27 | It is for me anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ The best thing for all of us is for me just to go back to London . |
| 29 | ‘ It is for me too , ’ Eve said . |
| 30 | But it is for you already , any fool can see you 're in no shape to continue . |