Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 61 | While she was doing so , she was company for little Sandy , who was just six months old and still in his pram , the image of his daddy , Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 62 | Despite her love of exercise , her health had been poor since her early adulthood and she was bedridden for many years . |
| 63 | She was larger than life , she had seen the world , she was game for anything , she was jolly and vibrant , spoke her mind ; all in all , she was fun to be with . |
| 64 | She was agent for Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( SDP ) in 1987 General Election . |
| 65 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 66 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 67 | ‘ If he had any idea of what she was doing for us , MoD does n't want it spread around . |
| 68 | That 's the scathing view of Riddick Bowe — the next challenger for Evander Holyfield 's world crown — who was ringside for Lewis 's fourth-round victory over outweighed and outclassed American Mike Dixon here yesterday . |
| 69 | Mr. Redwood , who was Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities before the latest Cabinet re-shuffle , is an enthusiastic supporter of public and private partnerships in the rejuvenation of urban areas . |
| 70 | MEMBERS of Newry Drama Festival and friends have held a dinner in Newry Arts Centre to honour Owen Mooney , who was chairman for 27 years . |
| 71 | Confusingly , it was another Richard Hutchinson , of the City and later of Stepney , who was co-treasurer for sick and wounded soldiers , widows , and orphans from 1643 to 1660 and a judge for imprisoned debtors in 1653–4 , and who served as co-paymaster of the navy under the treasurers in 1688–71 , appearing in the latter part of Pepys 's diary . |
| 72 | Taylor ( Un ) , who was Assemblyman for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1973 , obtained a clear quota of first preference votes . |
| 73 | It was probably his uncle , another Maximilian , who was MP for Westbury , Wiltshire , in 1628–9 , and his cousin Edmund who sat for Chipping Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , in the Convention Parliament of 1660 . |
| 74 | Mark Cunningham , who was lifeguard for the Masters and regularly bodysurfed big Pipe , was offhand about the danger . |
| 75 | The ever-anxious Ford had been appointed to replace Major Richard Sharpe as commanding officer of the battalion , which of itself was cause for the Colonel to worry , for Joseph Ford was keenly aware that the Rifleman had been a most competent and experienced soldier . |
| 76 | ‘ It would be naive and stupid to think we have a walkover just because we are favourites for the First Division title . |
| 77 | Nobody knows who we , who we are man for Christ sake . |
| 78 | We 're typists for a firm of account-ants in Charing Cross . ’ |
| 79 | After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet . |
| 80 | The wind freshened from astern off Rudha Reidh and we just managed to beat a south westerly gale into Loch Ewe where we were weatherbound for the next two days . |
| 81 | Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade . |
| 82 | But however that 's the way things went and er we were distributors for the Morris for Selkirkshire and Peebleshire . |
| 83 | ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly . |
| 84 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 85 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 86 | One was admiration for Arnold Palmer the shot-maker , and the other for Arnold Palmer the sportsman . |
| 87 | In the defence of Verdun , it will be recalled , de Castelnau had already rendered an invaluable service in the ‘ Intermediary Line ’ , hastily constructed as a result of his coup d'oeil in January , and — had there been time for the completion of the Third Position that he had also prescribed then — there seems a chance that the German breakthrough on the 24th might have been prevented altogether . |
| 88 | Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial . |
| 89 | There are races for all age groups from eight and under upwards and also one for the disabled . |
| 90 | It is true that much of the country closes down for too long over this festive period , though there are advantages for industry in doing that and we all deserve a decent break at this time of the year . |