Example sentences of "[pron] be for [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 She felt the tight leather skirt being wriggled upwards to bare her scorching behind , and when his cool fingers touched her hot flesh she realised just how hot she was for him .
32 How ready she was for him to fuck her .
33 It will obviously take some time , you know Alex is , must be going through a terrible strain himself and he must be concerned about us er as we are for him .
34 To actually erm I 'd gather the evidence of how far down the line we are for her , saying that would that would be a a six monthly check .
35 Argol is on his way in a kind of steel tub , apparently , and when he gets here we are for it .
36 Oh , we 're for it , ’ he said .
37 We 're for it for patriotic reasons .
38 ‘ Now we 're for it , ’ whispered her sister .
39 ‘ Now we 're for it . ’
40 Should we , because we 're for us today ?
41 Of course we thought we were for it .
42 This one is for me .
43 Fallen like Lucifer ; fallen ( this one is for you , Stu ) like the stock market in 1929 .
44 Now at the bottom of your sheet , shh , shh , I , there are two boxes , one is for me to scribble in , the other one is for you to write neatly in , I 'm the only one here who 's allowed to scribble .
45 The other one 's for him . "
46 A couple of them 's got ‘ B's in them and I try and work out which one 's for me , but it 's too hard .
47 I give her the letters and ask her which one 's for me , and she looks through them quick .
48 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 .
49 that one 's for me is it ?
50 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 .
51 As far as children with special educational needs are concerned , there are for me two main worries .
52 I know Sibelius is in many ways a very different composer from Bruckner , but I remember you suggesting that there are for you affinities between them .
53 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
54 I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into .
55 Buttressing these are the scarcity of good job opportunities on the internal labour market and the intense competition that there is for them ( Koshiro , 1981 ) .
56 We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community .
57 But right now , I 'm going to do the most important thing that there is for me to do .
58 … though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ , yet there is for us only one God , … and there is only one Lord .
59 Even if there are so-called ‘ gods ’ ( like stable government , a large credit balance in the building society , a new video recorder or a newly fitted kitchen ) whether in heaven or on earth , and even though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ yet there is for us only one God 1 Cor 8:5 , 6a
60 Come along , we 'll go and find the very nicest apple there is for you . ’
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