Example sentences of "[pers pn] are for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 2 | The taller you are for your weight , the more range advantage you will accrue . |
| 3 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 4 | ‘ You are for hire ? ’ |
| 5 | Tell him how sorry you are for letting Satan influence your life . |
| 6 | The more ambitious you are for how the magazine is to look , the more time-consuming and expensive your enterprise becomes . |
| 7 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then you are for clearing up the mess if we could , you are against — |
| 9 | There you are for the for the ring . |
| 10 | Well there you are for the as we have it again now . |
| 11 | There you are for this er gent 's singles stone diamond ring this time . |
| 12 | There you are for the gent 's ring this time . |
| 13 | If we do n't know where you are for twelve months or more we have to assume you have abandoned your child . |
| 14 | This batch I am sending you are for keeps , if you can find a place for them ! |
| 15 | ‘ No more anxious than you are for the return of the Earl of Gloucester , madam , ’ he countered . |
| 16 | That is what a T four bacteria is for and that 's what I am for , and I would suggest y ultimately what you are for as well , and this is why in the end erm nature will cast us aside . |
| 17 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 18 | Here you are for best results treat autumn or spring . |
| 19 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 20 | Sir Angus replied : ‘ We are for advising the Prime Minister , who is very interested in efficiency and effectiveness in the Civil Service . |
| 21 | We are for bringing outside analysis to departments along with the office of the Minister for the Civil Service and the Treasury . |
| 22 | The attack was stepped up by Raghib Ahsan , of Birmingham Ladywood , who told the conference : ‘ We are offered scraps from the masters ’ table , and hungry as we are for black representation , our response must be to spit them out . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Thus we live by hope and faith , thus we are for the most part able to realize what we will , and thus we accomplish the end of our being . |
| 24 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
| 25 | In 1970 President Nixon affirmed ‘ we are for Israel because Israel in our view is the only state in the Mideast which is pro-freedom and an effective opponent to Soviet expansion . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Day is done ’ is of course another Shakespearean echo , like the Dark Tower : ‘ The bright day is done ’ , says Iras to Cleopatra , ‘ and we are for the dark ’ . |
| 27 | WE 'RE SORRY we ca n't return any of your Gallery pictures , but not half as sorry as we are for inflicting this smirking , high-voiced , tubby toff with less personality than a plasticine man on you . |
| 28 | ‘ Tell us how bad we are for eating , buying , selling so much , through pictures of starving children or selfish indulgence — this is the style favoured by charities . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ We are for ever saving each other 's neck , you and I. ’ He halted , striving to get his breath . |