Example sentences of "be a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And not only that , I 'll tell you what I 've longed to tell you for some time , that I think you 're a fool for not having responded to it , for not having done something about it before now . |
| 2 | Even before I got to understand guilt , I used to walk about the house muttering , ‘ You 're a subject for guilt , boy , a subject for guilt . ’ |
| 3 | He probably thinks you 're a plonker for carrying a rucksack and wearing hefty boots with gaiters when the temperature is in the eighties . |
| 4 | as a fact your hair at the back , do n't tell anybody you 're a hairdresser for god 's sake . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're a beggar for punishment , ’ Jos shouted . |
| 6 | He says they 're a matter for the politicians . |
| 7 | If you 're a sucker for tradition , you can always watch the changing of the guard before the leading runners come along . |
| 8 | Gloucesters , can I help you ? erm Monday through to Friday , nine to five Basically we 're a shop for the soldiers to buy erm clothing , any sort of items they need for everyday life in the army . |
| 9 | Stevenson , you 're a cure for dull aches , you really are . ’ |
| 10 | I think we 're a handful for them actually , a lot of us . |
| 11 | What they actually do is they , they 're a funnel for information . |
| 12 | ‘ If Barnes , Waddle , Lineker play to form , and please God he gives Gascoigne a free role , we 're a match for anyone ’ |
| 13 | Both donned two-pieces to prove they 're a match for anybody . |
| 14 | I am a catalyst for change . |
| 15 | As you know , I am a tutor for Admissions of an Oxford College and part of the task is to visit schools . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I enjoy movies but am a sucker for sad endings . |
| 19 | But I am a match for Kenamun , and you are forgetting our mutual friend . ’ |
| 20 | He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson . |
| 21 | NUTFIELD PRIORY , AN enormous Victorian Gothic mansion near Reigate , had for many years been a school for the blind . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 24 | She remembered Nails 's dogged determination riding Midnight , swallowing his male arrogance to knuckle under to a girl 's instructions : it had really been a struggle for him . |
| 25 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 26 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 27 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 28 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 29 | He quotes Hennock who wrote , ‘ It seemed to many observers that there had been a change for the worse since 1835 ! ’ |
| 30 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |