Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [vb pp] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 2 | We are elected by the public to do a job and we should n't be ashamed of the amount of money that we 're paid for it , and what I would say is , that no manifesto in May 's election said we were going to come here and vote for more money for members , nobody put on their leaflets , vote for me and I will raise members allowances by five percent in the coming year , I did n't and I wo n't support that , and you will argue , perhaps some of you that that 's not really what we 're doing , but it look 's like it , does n't it ? |
| 3 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 4 | Employing one or several people to answer calls , so that they are screened for their relevance . |
| 5 | The word for ‘ make intercession ’ is the same in Hebrews 7:25 as in Romans 8:26 ; except that in Romans it has a prefix which indicates intensity , or , perhaps , stresses that it is done for us . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not say that it was withdrawn for its political content . ’ |
| 7 | The fact that it was used for his or another 's use could be established by questions and answers between the police and the defendant . |
| 8 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 9 | It was a crash course in survival , and in learning how to get on with people ; but when he made friends there , he knew , probably for the first time in his life , that he was liked for who he was and not what he was . |
| 10 | It was a considerable tribute to his growing reputation in high official circles , and the fact that he was proposed for it by Sir John Anderson ( later Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , then permanent under-secretary at the Home Office , indicates that he already enjoyed the trust of the home departments he would henceforth be serving . |