Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 2 | It must have been for myself as much as any other that I issued that warning : It might be all too easy to take a wrong path ! |
| 3 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |
| 4 | How it must have been for our Stone Age grandmothers — swell , oh , oh , pop , look , a little one — oh , it 's dead — oh , I 'm dying , dying ; dead ! |
| 5 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 6 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |