Example sentences of "[prep] be [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't used to really , ooh it must of been murder for him when you think ! |
| 2 | It was Ana who came forward as Maggie came into the room , and clearly she did not let her blindness get in the way of being hostess for her brother . |
| 3 | There seemed to be space for everyone . |
| 4 | I had never taught in a classroom before but , although daunting at first , it turned out to be education for me as well as the students . |
| 5 | And to be company for him in his old age among this sorority of Slavonic women he seemed to be siring . |
| 6 | Now how how you work it on your scheme or whatever scheme comes up , it just seems to me that if you are going to have self-regulatory body , there 's got to be responsibility for it and how you impose that responsibility , could I 'm sure be in all sorts of different ways . |
| 7 | Old George used to be an old he was always keen to be executor for anybody you know . |
| 8 | Now there are a lot of supporters , er are they going to be er , is there going to be room for everybody ? |
| 9 | It used to be dinner for us at night , you see , cos we did n't have time for stopping like at lunchtime . |
| 10 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |