Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [art] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the civilization for which they are fighting , ’ he replied . |
| 2 | Fig 7 ) The intro from It 's Only Love is one of my personal favourites ( I 'm a sucker for anything that uses the old White Room ploy ! ) . |
| 3 | More recently , I graduated , won a place in Cosmopolitan 's New Journalists competition and joined a feature-writing agency in London , The Write Stuff : if anyone wants an interview , I 'm The Chap for you . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I like the fashion , and because I 'm an activist for what I believe in . |
| 5 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 6 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 7 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 8 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 9 | Apart from those recommendations relating to fiscal measures , which are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , we have set targets for action on every one of the recommendations — and we shall report again on progress in six months . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've invested our money back into a system others can come through , which is a way for us to stay fresh and help people we believe in . ’ |
| 11 | But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere . |
| 12 | ‘ He lost 10 or 11 kilos , which is a lot for him . |
| 13 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 14 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 15 | Which is an explanation for my bloody-mindedness , I know , but no excuse . ’ |
| 16 | However , division has a fundamental advantage , which is the reason for its good performance : no two records in any single section into which the key sequence is ‘ cut ’ by division can interfere with any other in the same section , because no two different numbers can have both the same quotient and the same remainder . |
| 17 | But , if Aquinas is right , they do not act intentionally , intending a goal which is the reason for their actions . |
| 18 | Prominence , which is the basis for our sense of the particularity of a style , also provides the condition for recognition that a style is being used for a particular literary end : that it has a " value in the game " . |
| 19 | In 1925 , Herbert Macaulay produced West Africa 's first successful daily newspaper , the Lagos Daily News , which was a mouthpiece for his National Democratic party . |
| 20 | Suddenly the Sergeant stood up which was a signal for us to go outside again . |
| 21 | It was agreed that we should be married as soon as Leslie had completed his parachute training , which was the reason for his being sent home . |
| 22 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 23 | ‘ You are a stringer for them , after all . |
| 24 | Remember that when you are out with your metal detector you are an ambassador for our hobby . |
| 25 | Hey , Mr Pat Buchanan , you 're the man for me ; |
| 26 | Hey , Mr Pat Buchanan , you 're the man for me ; |
| 27 | And you 're the man for me . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't think you were a man for whom family relationships would be important . ’ |
| 29 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps you were the sun for your little dragon ; and now she is strong enough , she wants to be free . ’ |