Example sentences of "[adv] be for her " in BNC.

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1 He took himself off , illogically cursing Emily Groundwater ; if it had not been for her he would have been in a warm bed , with Bible Willie breathing beside him .
2 It had not been for her .
3 The station had always been for her a place instinct with glory ; its function beautified it immeasurably in her eyes .
4 Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else .
5 The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it .
6 The only way to find out is for her to get an HIV antibody test .
7 If it had n't been for her I would n't be here …
8 If it had n't been for her , he would n't even be here .
9 All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her .
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