Example sentences of "[pron] [is] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once spent a whole rehearsal on the Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffmann , which is for me one of the most tragic things in opera . |
| 2 | To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely . |
| 3 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 4 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 5 | Third , her dispute with ‘ interpretation ’ , which is for her also a dispute with any kind of critical theory , is due to the assumptions of cultural differentiation built into the former and latter . |
| 6 | If your complaint can not be resolved locally , your representative will ask you to complete a report form , the original of which is for you and a copy will be forwarded to our Head Office . |
| 7 | This is my body , which is for you , do this as a memorial of me … |
| 8 | A sense which can work against his best interests — for I need not repeat how much I respect Amaryllis , how entirely delightful and suitable I find her and how wonderfully rare she is for me who has — as man to man I can tell you what you must guess — several times been urged to marry . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's very clever , ’ William said at once , ‘ making lovely shoes she is for them actresses in the theatre . ’ |
| 10 | This one is for me . |
| 11 | Fallen like Lucifer ; fallen ( this one is for you , Stu ) like the stock market in 1929 . |
| 12 | Now at the bottom of your sheet , shh , shh , I , there are two boxes , one is for me to scribble in , the other one is for you to write neatly in , I 'm the only one here who 's allowed to scribble . |
| 13 | The other one 's for him . " |
| 14 | A couple of them 's got ‘ B's in them and I try and work out which one 's for me , but it 's too hard . |
| 15 | I give her the letters and ask her which one 's for me , and she looks through them quick . |
| 16 | We ca n't come next week , cos next week it 's on Thursday morning Wait a minute , that one 's for you Tim that one 's for me there we go . |
| 17 | that one 's for me is it ? |
| 18 | We ca n't come next week , cos next week it 's on Thursday morning Wait a minute , that one 's for you Tim that one 's for me there we go . |
| 19 | Buttressing these are the scarcity of good job opportunities on the internal labour market and the intense competition that there is for them ( Koshiro , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 21 | But right now , I 'm going to do the most important thing that there is for me to do . |
| 22 | … though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ , yet there is for us only one God , … and there is only one Lord . |
| 23 | Even if there are so-called ‘ gods ’ ( like stable government , a large credit balance in the building society , a new video recorder or a newly fitted kitchen ) whether in heaven or on earth , and even though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ yet there is for us only one God 1 Cor 8:5 , 6a |
| 24 | Come along , we 'll go and find the very nicest apple there is for you . ’ |
| 25 | It can do all there is for it to do , which is to discover regularities among our God-given ideas , and to systematize these in the most useful way . |
| 26 | It seems to be a facet of nature that the lower a creature is on the scale of consciousness , the less there is for it to learn , and the more slavishly bound it is to its instincts . |
| 27 | This lets you monitor the demand that there is for it and will provide a sound basis for decisions about the possible expansion of your video facilities in the future . |
| 28 | It 's for him that I am accepting this honour . |
| 29 | It 's for him to come down here and settle his debts , like everybody else in the valley . |
| 30 | Well , I says to him , I 'm getting sick of these calls cos you do n't know if it 's for him or him . |