Example sentences of "[indef pn] to be [vb pp] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 2 | The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders . |
| 3 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 4 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 6 | So although Frazer was doing a kind of anthropology that was later to be rather dis despised , it had something to be said for it . |
| 7 | So , but there is something to be said for it I 'm certainly not running it down , what I am saying is you ca n't . |