Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this is important to you is not for us to say . |
| 2 | Now , I 've got ta tell ya , that in itself is enough for me to say close it , anything that 's related to Co Coronation Street . |
| 3 | Because I ca n't if you 're holding that handle there there 's nowhere for me to walk . |
| 4 | There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs . |
| 5 | But in captivity there 's nowhere for them to run , so it 's up to us to see they do n't hurt each other badly . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There 's nowhere for it to curve to . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a futile gesture , of course , because there 's nowhere for you to go . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Very useful things , ladders , especially when you 're on the top of one — there 's nowhere for you to run , which I get the feeling you are contemplating , and I think even you are n't callous enough to push me off backwards . ’ |
| 9 | " But there 's nowhere for us to go , is there , Andrew ? " |
| 10 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
| 11 | Provided he is not forced to drop them it may be that Gorbachev , ironically , could be the first world leader to actually reduce a country 's intelligence agencies on the grounds that there is less for them to do . |
| 12 | They had not been asked to sit down and indeed there was nowhere for them to do so . |
| 13 | There was n't much space along here , and he could no longer rely on people taking one look and then getting out of his way because there was nowhere for them to go . |
| 14 | There was nowhere for him to put his feet . |
| 15 | By the time they returned to the table for the Christmas pudding John Harbour had moved and there was nowhere for her to sit except beside O'Hara . |
| 16 | There was nowhere for us to put our belongings . |
| 17 | It would not go anywhere ; there was nowhere for it to go . |
| 18 | In a secondary sort of way she knew that , beyond the opportunity to please and placate Maman , there was more for her to give if she should eat the horrible spinach . |
| 19 | You have a set of notes here now I 'm not gon na start at page one and work right through to page whatever it is erm they are there for you to take away for you to make notes during these two days er and for you to take away so that they 're they 're for revision and er there are as Bob 's just discovering pages where a I 'll ask you to make make specific notes er that I 'll supply to you as we go along . |
| 20 | So they were there for me to see as they came in , etc . |
| 21 | It were enough for me to take back to our branch and say " it 's us against them " . " |
| 22 | What he said was , ‘ It 's not for me to say , Aggie , it 's for her . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's not for me to say , sir . |
| 24 | Whether or not Harry is the right man for you , it 's not for me to say . |
| 25 | well it 's not for me to say . |
| 26 | It 's not for me to approve or disapprove . ’ |
| 27 | It 's not for me to come to you , it 's for you to get rid of it . |
| 28 | ‘ Well it 's not for me to advise you , of course … ’ |
| 29 | It 's not for me to question orders , but I should have thought that running him to earth would be a simple police job . " |
| 30 | Anyway , look , it 's not for him to say that he 's gon na keep the trades council movement alive , the trades council movement can well look after itself , without the interference of the dead hand of the T U C. |