Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] a [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I like the fashion , and because I 'm an activist for what I believe in . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | ‘ You are a stringer for them , after all . |
| 5 | Remember that when you are out with your metal detector you are an ambassador for our hobby . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't think you were a man for whom family relationships would be important . ’ |
| 7 | She can tap that source , channel the current , and direct it outwardly , but she herself is not that source ; she is a container for it . |
| 8 | She was a sucker for his charm . |
| 9 | Sien , he stressed , was that kind of person : in other words she was a substitute for something else — as prostitutes are — and from an inferior class . |
| 10 | I think we 're a handful for them actually , a lot of us . |
| 11 | ‘ If Barnes , Waddle , Lineker play to form , and please God he gives Gascoigne a free role , we 're a match for anyone ’ |
| 12 | See them in their toy-filled Kensington town house and you would assume they are a family for whom everything falls effortlessly into place — until you remember John 's surprise defeat in the April election . |
| 13 | Both donned two-pieces to prove they 're a match for anybody . |
| 14 | They were a generation for whom Beats , jazz , art , and existentialism was what Paris was really about , not the hedonistic , free-spirited outburst of the revolution . |
| 15 | He would flirt with the girls who sold them to him and pretend they were a present for his mother . |
| 16 | It 's a dream for me to be here making an album with them ’ she added as she arrived in the UK five months after her visit to record ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ . |
| 17 | Because it 's , it 's a service for everyone , as long as everybody gets the same |
| 18 | Oh it 's a present for you |
| 19 | When she brought it down the hospital she said here you are nan er mum she said , nan she said it 's a present for you she said , so we did laugh . |
| 20 | It 's a present for my mother . |
| 21 | Oh well , it 's a sport for him , yes . |
| 22 | And he 's a , he 's something framed up in the room there , I have n't it 's a certificate for something they 've got from school , and he 's that framed and up in his room . |
| 23 | It 's a chance for them to forget the washing up and their household chores , put their feet up and settle down for a comfortable snooze in front of their favourite television programme ( which really does n't sound much different from normal , does it ? ) |
| 24 | We could say well there 's our it 's a half for you and a half for you and we cut the other one and they get a half each . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a messenger for you , Major Karr , ’ she said , the use of Karr 's rank indicating to them all that the man was within hearing in the next room . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a package for you . ’ |
| 27 | what he has said is that he , it 's a matter for myself to talk to whoever I wish , and that he respects my judgement in these matters , er according to the joint statement issued Mr Reynolds briefed him on his discussions with me on that on that |
| 28 | It 's a matter for someone 's own conscience how they cope with illness , publicly or privately , but to say that in life Freddie did anything to publicise the agony of AIDS is bullshit . |
| 29 | At the end of the day it 's a matter for you . |
| 30 | It 's a matter for you as individuals is n't it if you witness something ? |