Example sentences of "[prep] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they give them a gill of whisky that was supposed to be for their lunch you see . |
| 2 | Equipment worth over £15,000 was taken in the raid believed to be for its scrap value . |
| 3 | This may make her feel that society regards her as a second-class widow , and you may need to help those who come into contact with her to understand how important it is going to be for her future adjustment for them to treat her just as they would any other bereaved person . |
| 4 | ( What kind of a rest is it meant to be for me with a querulous adolescent ? |
| 5 | ‘ Club before country was how it had to be for me because injury and suspension have left me with only 11 players for Arbroath 's league game with Brechin City on Saturday , ’ said McGrain . |
| 6 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 7 | Just what does something have to be for it to be called a god ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm tired of being manoeuvred into painful and irritating situations that are supposed to be for my own good . |
| 9 | I 'm subbing Neil but that 's out of money which he gives me and which really in theory ought to be for my own , own use you know for fun but I get housing benefit for him , from the council . |
| 10 | They were meant to be for his weight but I 'm not sure I believe that . |
| 11 | That is to be hi , for it to be his , to be to his praise , to be for his glory . |
| 12 | Officials said yesterday that Robert Lock , 29 , from Cambridge , had been on remand after a court hearing last week when police detected the heroin , believed to be for his own use . |
| 13 | And the more information you get about those businesses the easier it 's going to be for you to er to convey to them you know a lot you 've done your research on them . |
| 14 | How miserable life 's going to be for you . |
| 15 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 16 | And you could say that Boy 's life in The Bar and in fact his mere presence there began somehow to be for us our revenge on that poor boy in that terrible , bitter , unhappy scene in that famous film . |
| 17 | A priest is there to be for us a specific and bodily reminder of the man Jesus at the Last Supper . |
| 18 | It should be noted that this grouping of sixth-century metalwork includes nearly all of the known examples , and only raises again the question of how similar items have to be for us to be able to distinguish the skills of one workshop as opposed to the learned traditions of a single society . |
| 19 | " Is it going to be for us as well as about us ? " she asked . |
| 20 | It will have to be for us at least twenty one days , that 's the absolute rock bottom minimum I would have thought therefore the French I suspect have us over a barrel and we would have to cough up for the enormous expenditure of an extra building at Strasbourg which is not needed erm as I understand it er that er view I savoured I do n't erm have the details of that . |