Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] a [noun] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | She was a sucker for his charm . |
| 3 | He would flirt with the girls who sold them to him and pretend they were a present for his mother . |
| 4 | It 's a present for my mother . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a job for your father and brothers , Grace , not you ! |
| 6 | It is a matter for their boards of management and we should expect them , like all bodies that are publicly funded , to get value for money . |
| 7 | My views are well known , but it is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 8 | As I said , it is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 9 | I was very happy at Emmanuel Church and the University Congregational Society , and it is a joy for my husband Michael and me that we are still in touch with so many friends from CongSoc , and in fact some of us still meet every year for a few days in the Lake District . |
| 10 | The boy feels hostile towards his father as he believes he is a rival for his mother 's intentions . |
| 11 | NOT many men get the better of judo hero Ray Stevens … but he 's a pushover for his little lad . |
| 12 | Stephen Conroy and I had the same tutor , Geoff Squires , and maybe he 's a model for our life drawing . |
| 13 | He ca n't recall the man 's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house . |
| 14 | He ca n't recall the man 's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house . |
| 15 | First it was a little bit of yellow fish for her landlady 's cat — the poor thing was half starved — then it was a bulb for her bedside lamp , and lastly she remembered that a friend of hers had just opened in a play in Manchester and there just might be a review in the evening paper . |
| 16 | But it was not a parent — it was a letter for her brother Branwell . |
| 17 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 18 | It was a mailshot for his own agency , which was then starting up , to potential clients . |
| 19 | It was a demand for his own deselection . |