Example sentences of "[noun pl] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And the tears were for herself too , because her treacherous , sensation-loving body had enjoyed — even wanted — his touch . |
| 32 | Goff J at p555 stated thus : … it seems to me that the payments were for his benefit , since they enabled him to withdraw an equivalent amount of his frozen capital . |
| 33 | He wrote girls ' phone numbers in the back of the book so that she would think the stars were for something else if she snooped around . |
| 34 | ‘ So it occurred to me that you , as my great-uncle 's ghillie , might even have known what his plans were for his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 35 | My impression is that the old trick of saying that the cigarettes are for one 's mother or older brother still works 99.99 per cent . |
| 36 | All her regrets were for herself , not him . |
| 37 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 38 | NOTES IS FOR EVERYONE |
| 39 | er and some of the solutions that are offered to reduce those crimes involve women restricting , their movements and their freedoms , but I think one of the other reasons why generally people who are victims of crime be they men or women feel guilty is because one of the implicit elements in tradition crime prevention strategies is for us to reduce the opportunity for crime |
| 40 | Embarrassing as those moments were for me , I would not wish to imply that I in any way blame Mr Farraday , who is in no sense an unkind person ; he was , I am sure , merely enjoying the sort of bantering which in the United States , no doubt , is a sign of a good , friendly understanding between employer and employee , indulged in as a kind of affectionate sport . |
| 41 | These biscuits were for somebody else , were n't they ? |
| 42 | But both men told police that the drugs were for their own personal use , said a DPP lawyer . |
| 43 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |
| 44 | PC Thomas Hewett 's first comprehensible thoughts were for his colleague . |
| 45 | The information in italics is for your guidance only . |
| 46 | A young man once told us , following a talk on sex and relationships , that the reason he fondled his fiancée 's breasts was for her pleasure and not his . |
| 47 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 48 | Through it all runs the most noble assumption — that no human need be daunted by the stature even of a genius such as Shakespeare , that his wisdoms and magics are for us all and that Johnson himself is an eager and willing guide . |
| 49 | ‘ All right , well I have told you that the facts are for you ; you have seen all the witnesses in the case , you have heard them and it is for you to assess their evidence and to decide which of them you believe , if any , which of them you disbelieve , if any . |
| 50 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |
| 51 | In the first place he draws our attention to the fact that not all our desires are for our own future states of affairs , desires can be impersonal . |
| 52 | They are as dependent on retaining and winning votes from local electors through winning government contracts as their industrial and military colleagues are for their profits and prestige , respectively . |
| 53 | In a 1977 vote initiated by ASTMS at Greenock , 13,000 voted against union representation , and only 44 employees were for it . |
| 54 | Or perhaps none of the shirts is for me … |