Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] be for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost .
2 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 .
3 I 've , yeah I know , but it 's just some days you , I know , I see what you mean , talking about that , but at the end it is for your children anyway , cos you know , that money should be for your children and if you have worked and you put the money away for them anyway , you 've paid your taxes and things .
4 That 's the way it is for me , ’ he says .
5 We have no machinery , no animals to help us , not even a donkey : we need all the land there is for ourselves .
6 He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought .
7 You do n't know Stella , what er a delight it is for us to have you .
8 I had a feeling it was for you .
9 The more security you have , the more of a challenge it is for them and the more of a thrill they get if they get away with it .
10 But her smile was strange — as if she was sharing a secret with me , that this was an illusion it was for us two , not the old man , to foster .
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