Example sentences of "but [pron] be [adj] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am happy for them to be there and wish them well . |
| 2 | But I was happy for him . |
| 3 | He sat , his head bent , his fingers clasped together , each one-twitching ; and then she was standing in front of him , apologetic , saying , ‘ I 've gone past meself , Joe , I 'm sorry , but I 'm concerned for her . |
| 4 | Everything they grow they must take to the market to survive , but everything is expensive for them and so they have nothing . |
| 5 | As Alexander Irvine put it in 1694 : it is a Maxim in our Law , " That the King can do no Wrong " ; the Meaning whereof is not , that nothing can be done amiss that he does in point of Government , but whatever there is amiss to it , is not to be imputed to him , but to those by whose Advice and Ministry he acts ; and consequently , that not he , but they are punishable for them . |
| 6 | Shadow from the Gladiators has a reputation as a hard man … but he 's keen for it to be known that he 's really just a big softie at heart . |
| 7 | Infuriated by his arrogance , she tried to wrench herself free , but he was ready for her , holding her with no visible effort . |
| 8 | The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy . |
| 9 | Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress . |
| 10 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 11 | But it is impossible for him in his findings not to interpret events . |
| 12 | The pixel data may be in 8-bit binary words , but it is common for them to be 7-bit binary words , to preserve the capability of 7-bit transmission or coded as ascii hex characters , ie. , 0–9 and a-f , thus also preserving printability . |
| 13 | Producing elisions is something which foreign learners do not need to learn to do , but it is important for them to be aware that when native speakers of English talk to each other , quite a number of phonemes that the foreigner might expect to hear are not actually pronounced . |
| 14 | Now this may not be the most compelling subject but it is important for you to know that throughout our term in office , we 've not left you on your own as you carry out the task of raising funds for your programme . |
| 15 | Social researchers wish to establish clear findings from their work but it is natural for them to want to stretch or overplay the evidence . |
| 16 | But it 's new for me . |
| 17 | He kept his eyes on the ground as he answered , ‘ A lovely evening , but it 's late for you to be out alone . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But it 's perfect for me … |
| 19 | And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps , but it 's different for us , ’ Harriet said , mindful of what her father had told her . |
| 21 | But it 's fine for me because really I grew up in Tembisa and I still know many people there . ’ |
| 22 | I can imagine him saying ‘ Ah luv thee , but dunna ma'e me feel sma' ’ but it 's hard for me to picture the careful explanation and vindication of himself that comes after . |
| 23 | But it 's natural for them to lick a wound . |
| 24 | As Barth once put it , he and Brunner were like the elephant and the whale : both were God 's creatures , but it was impossible for them to meet ! |
| 25 | He was n't a very good poet , I do n't think , but it was nice for him to see his poems printed for once . |
| 26 | ‘ But it was important for us to play together as much as possible , whether it was to a new crowd or just the same old people . |
| 27 | ‘ It was n't difficult to remember what the men looked like but it was painful for him to see the faces of the people who killed his brother . ’ |
| 28 | It did n't last long , but it was painful for her and for us . |
| 29 | But it was different for you and Papa . |
| 30 | ‘ Not everybody chose to go there , ’ Joan Sims recalled , ‘ but it was wonderful for us all to be there . ’ |