Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am for King Stephen . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ However , I am for frankness in these matters . |
| 3 | " Miriam , " she said instead , " I can not tell you how worried I am for Harry . |
| 4 | Avid as I am for details of Claudia 's personal life , I have lost interest in the details of my own . |
| 5 | I 'm for Shrewsbury , I know where I can get a horse there ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No , it 'll be a night out I would guess , although I 'm for home myself first , to get some shuteye . |
| 7 | I 'm for home to-night , whatever you choose to do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If he blows his mouth off before the Wee GP , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm for castration . |
| 9 | My name 's Carolyn and I 'm for Director for a group exploring parenthood . |
| 10 | A is central heating , C is car parking , D is street car parking , E is special diets catered for , F , tea and coffee making facility , G is television in bedrooms at no extra charge I is for answering and J K , I 've , I 'm , just to go all through this , disabled facilities , L separate M bedrooms available with private telephones in , it 's N , number of bedrooms available with private bathroom and toilet or shower and toilet . |
| 11 | Anyway , this man came up to where I was standing with my mother , and asked if I was for hire . |
| 12 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 13 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 14 | This batch I am sending you are for keeps , if you can find a place for them ! |
| 15 | ‘ You are for hire ? ’ |
| 16 | I think it 's absolute madness it 's a legal minefield and it 's an extraordinary way of going on whether you 're for hunting or not . |
| 17 | and if you 're for instance dealing with a purchaser who 's interested in buying around about December what was the system that you had about saying what the service charges might be ? , |
| 18 | We 've got this far , Culley thought , so I 'm going to assume that you 're for sale . |
| 19 | He was looking at her as though she were for sale . |
| 20 | She 's for adoration , ’ Carey said , ‘ not information . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not surprised she was for cats ' meat , ’ Biddy said . |
| 22 | In 1970 President Nixon affirmed ‘ we are for Israel because Israel in our view is the only state in the Mideast which is pro-freedom and an effective opponent to Soviet expansion . ’ |
| 23 | We are not against unions , we are for unions , unions can be very useful not only for their members but also for the management , we recognise that . |
| 24 | ‘ Tell us how bad we are for eating , buying , selling so much , through pictures of starving children or selfish indulgence — this is the style favoured by charities . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're for choice right across the board . |
| 26 | We 'd been saying how awful it was , how sorry we were for Connie . |
| 27 | at least some latitude , within the system , for personal judgement about individual special circumstances — we were for example impressed by what Debenhams told us about their practice of offering all applicants who were refused credit the opportunity of a review of their proposal by a senior manager , ; |
| 28 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 29 | A number of tags are missing from the Text710 tagset because they are for word types that are not found in dictionaries . |
| 30 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |