Example sentences of "[be] [prep] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 3 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 4 | Everyone 's got their problems , and no-one knows what life 's been like for anyone else . |
| 5 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 6 | If you know they have always enjoyed close companionship until they finally had to live alone , it is not difficult to imagine what it must be like for them to have no one to share their life with any longer , and no hand to hold as their step becomes less sure . |
| 7 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 8 | He could hardly begin to imagine what it must be like for her — everything severed , no turning back , the entire texture of her life abandoned for the deep terror of the new . |
| 9 | It 's touching at their core because it helps them to recognize and understand their own experience of oppression , or what life must be like for their own sister , brother , mother or a member of the youth club . |
| 10 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't imagine what it must be like for you . ’ |
| 12 | But if they were strange times for us , I can hardly imagine what they were like for my mother . |
| 13 | You know I asked you to commit yourself , how much do you think it 's worth for me to do all this kind of work and he 's , you 're confused because you think I 'm actually talking about money and I take the weight off your shoulders by saying no it 's not actually money , it 's in the form of two or three names , people open minded like yourself , who I can sit down and discuss the whole situation with |
| 14 | She helped us try to understand just what life is like for her . |
| 15 | Is it possible for the inmates to make the visitors understand what life is like for them , without arousing the hostility of the Warden ? |
| 16 | The key to the underlying tension here is in the line : ‘ Is it possible for the inmates to make the visitors understand what life is like for them without arousing the hostility of the Warden ? ’ |
| 17 | In spite of the distance from home , this little bit of Oxford appears to have a bright future in the U S A , in spite of the competition from 35 other companies and there are plans for special videos to be made so that the employees in Clearwater can learn something of what life is like for their counterparts in Abingdon . |
| 18 | and then finally we could finish off with Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men or whatever they want to call themselves from and they could say well we 're the guys in between we 've got clients out there but we have to deal with printers and estimators and this is what life is like for us . |
| 19 | It 's exhausting enough for you ; imagine what it is like for someone who is n't used to your kids . |
| 20 | Let Katie find out what she 's like for herself . |
| 21 | Erm the other thing is to for you and I decide er well once you tell me that you 're happy er with what 's happened so far . |
| 22 | I just tried to write what it was like for me in Toronto , growing up and hanging out , the suburban adolescent heavy metal North American experience . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you have any idea of what is was like for me , trying to sleep in a bed still warm from your body and scented with that soap and powder you use ? ’ |
| 24 | But they can be good at conveying what it was like for them to be there , and to be writing it down . |
| 25 | What Fussell is looking for are the records of the little people , to discover what the war was like for them . |
| 26 | How could he , Theo , have forgotten what it was like for him in Amsterdam ? |
| 27 | That was like for her ticket as well . |
| 28 | Well tell me what it was like for you , from your point of view , erm , erm coming to a New Town with a teenage son because most of the couples who came either did n't have any children or were just about to have baby |