Example sentences of "i be good for " in BNC.

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1 I am good for … ’
2 So you will have Miss Blagden to thank and now I suppose that since I am useless to you I will not hear from you again which will not grieve me if that is all I am good for .
3 And what is more , the clichés used by Mome Elwis are at least better suited to the cleric than anything the clerk can come out with : ( " I can do no other deed but say my paternoster and my creed to Christ for my misdeeds , and my Ave Maria — I am sorry for my sins — and my de profundis for all who remain in sin , for I am good for nothing else — Christ knows that , the king of heaven . " )
4 He seems to think that 's all I 'm good for , though I 've told him I 'm the Queen .
5 You said yourself that I 'm good for you . ’
6 He said , ‘ Isolation is all I 'm good for . ’
7 " I 'm glad I 'm good for you . "
8 ’ Oh , I 'm good for a while yet . ’
9 I thought that I had n't chosen to get married at all but that Syl had chosen to marry me , since it was time for him to marry and I offered no threat to the way and integrity of his life and character , and that my mother had chosen to see me wed because I was good for little else .
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