Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most extreme way of protecting them is for the mother to carry them around within her own body . |
| 2 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 3 | This may sound obvious , but it is surprising how many editors say they are for ever clearing out photographs which have no identification . |
| 4 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 5 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 6 | how do you know it 's thingy ? , how do you know it 's for the kids in Norway ? |
| 7 | And never once has he been for Instruction . ’ |
| 8 | Say it 's for the snapper . ’ |
| 9 | I say it 's for young fellows like yourself and myself , ’ Fonsie said . |
| 10 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 11 | And then if he asks you what you 're doing just say it 's for like , you know , a project we 're supposed to be doing . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 13 | Since the Vendor will have entered into the relevant contracts in the first place it is for the Vendor to take the risk as saying whether or not the contracts fall within these categories . |
| 14 | I simply assumed his was for later on , like mine . ’ |
| 15 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 16 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 17 | He says it 's for tourists and people who 've read the novels who want to refresh their thoughts . |
| 18 | The Home Office says it 's for illegal entrants to this country who 've been judged unlikely to comply with voluntary restrictions . |
| 19 | She says it 's for ducks . |
| 20 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 21 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 22 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 23 | They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real . |
| 24 | We hope it 's for the best , ’ said Mr Gennady Gerasimov , the chief spokesman , in pithy words which encapsulate the bold leap towards the Common European Home that Mr Egon Krenz , with Moscow 's backing , has made . |
| 25 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 26 | The first time they came it was for ‘ Bob-a-job ’ week , but now they just come . |
| 27 | The group finds that , for a given jet energy , the transverse momentum is always larger for the jet with lowest energy thin it is for the other two . |
| 28 | There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway . |
| 29 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 30 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |