Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And not only that , I 'll tell you what I 've longed to tell you for some time , that I think you 're a fool for not having responded to it , for not having done something about it before now . |
| 2 | Even before I got to understand guilt , I used to walk about the house muttering , ‘ You 're a subject for guilt , boy , a subject for guilt . ’ |
| 3 | He probably thinks you 're a plonker for carrying a rucksack and wearing hefty boots with gaiters when the temperature is in the eighties . |
| 4 | as a fact your hair at the back , do n't tell anybody you 're a hairdresser for god 's sake . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're a beggar for punishment , ’ Jos shouted . |
| 6 | He says they 're a matter for the politicians . |
| 7 | If you 're a sucker for tradition , you can always watch the changing of the guard before the leading runners come along . |
| 8 | Gloucesters , can I help you ? erm Monday through to Friday , nine to five Basically we 're a shop for the soldiers to buy erm clothing , any sort of items they need for everyday life in the army . |
| 9 | Stevenson , you 're a cure for dull aches , you really are . ’ |
| 10 | I think we 're a handful for them actually , a lot of us . |
| 11 | What they actually do is they , they 're a funnel for information . |
| 12 | ‘ If Barnes , Waddle , Lineker play to form , and please God he gives Gascoigne a free role , we 're a match for anyone ’ |
| 13 | Both donned two-pieces to prove they 're a match for anybody . |
| 14 | Sir William Ross , you 're an MP for East Londonderry . |
| 15 | If you 're an organizer for a charity or if you know someone who needs help in some way or indeed if you need help in some way , call us on Nottingham three four three four three four soon as possible and we 'll put you on charity shop that follows the four o'clock news here on afternoon special . |
| 16 | I am a catalyst for change . |
| 17 | As you know , I am a tutor for Admissions of an Oxford College and part of the task is to visit schools . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the reasons for my downfall is that I am a rep for Taunton Cider , and one of the first things Yvonne told me was to keep off alcohol . ’ |
| 19 | BE IT Coquilles St Jacques on an Atlantic-facing terrace in Brittany , or battered cod in the office canteen , I am a sucker for seafood . |
| 20 | I enjoy movies but am a sucker for sad endings . |
| 21 | But I am a match for Kenamun , and you are forgetting our mutual friend . ’ |
| 22 | He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson . |
| 23 | NUTFIELD PRIORY , AN enormous Victorian Gothic mansion near Reigate , had for many years been a school for the blind . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 26 | She remembered Nails 's dogged determination riding Midnight , swallowing his male arrogance to knuckle under to a girl 's instructions : it had really been a struggle for him . |
| 27 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 28 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 29 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 30 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |