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

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1 Sub-text : ‘ I am here for you , to act as a sounding board expressing empathy .
2 I 'm here for you whenever you need someone . ’
3 I 'm not I 'm not I 'm here for you not you do n't you 're not here for me .
4 ‘ Look , ’ she heard him say , ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've made you unhappy , but I 'm not for you . ’
5 You 're a cretin ; she 's not for you .
6 But she 's not for you and she 's certainly not for me .
7 ‘ Very useful things , ladders , especially when you 're on the top of one — there 's nowhere for you to run , which I get the feeling you are contemplating , and I think even you are n't callous enough to push me off backwards . ’
8 It 's a futile gesture , of course , because there 's nowhere for you to go . ’
9 If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest .
10 You have a set of notes here now I 'm not gon na start at page one and work right through to page whatever it is erm they are there for you to take away for you to make notes during these two days er and for you to take away so that they 're they 're for revision and er there are as Bob 's just discovering pages where a I 'll ask you to make make specific notes er that I 'll supply to you as we go along .
11 ‘ Do n't look at those books , ’ he tells me , when I go in to clean , ‘ they 're not for you .
12 No they 're not for you miss .
13 And you remember that they 're in no position to dictate because they 're there for you and me .
14 Think carefully before you decide — will it be just for you , or will other members of your family want to use the computer ?
15 Externalisation or blaming — accepting that there are significant problems but blaming anything other than alcohol or drug use for their cause : " If it were n't for you I 'd be okay " .
16 ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’
17 ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’
18 It 's not for you — ! ’
19 It 's not for you , ’ I replied frostily .
20 Anyway , you 're grown up now , it 's not for you to be as thick as thieves with the likes of her . ’
21 It 's not for you to understand , ’ Nanny said , stifling a small hiccup .
22 And they say ‘ It 's not for you to think . ’
23 6 If you teach abroad , respect the customs and conventions of the country ; it 's not for you to shock or try to change their society .
24 Okay well er er that 's the decision we make today so what what why do you think it 's not for you .
25 ‘ What a pity it 's not for you to guarantee !
26 you know working type chairman or something , I do n't know , anyway it 's just for you to think about it
27 Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace .
28 It 's here for you — a great page designed to help on just about everything .
29 If , if you look in your books page one seven seven , you 'll see a beautifully illustrated instruction on how to do it , which you can refer to yourself this evening or later on in the course if you forget but I 'm now gon na show you how to do one as well , you , if you want to know it 's there for you to look up you take the bandage and fold it into your narrow fold band and put it round your leg , you 've got something to tie a reef knot round , okay ? if you know how to do a reef knot already fine , just do it , if you do n't , follow instructions .
30 Erm simply to remind you of the position of of Selby District in in that our interest in a new settlement emerged out of concern for the quality of life in existing villages in in Selby district , and concerns for the impact of future peripheral development in those villages , and not just peripheral development on the edge of York , although of course we acknowledge that as an important consideration and it is for that reason that we fully supported the County Council 's proposals in relation to greenbelt , erm you asked the question earlier in relation to the P P G advice and and the six criteria , erm in fact I 've already rehearsed that argument in my submission so I wo n't repeat it now , erm the fact that you chose to phrase the question that way I 'll take as a good omen as to the way I presented my submission , but it it it 's there for you to read again , the the the main point that I want to address is something that was raised by Mr Wincup yesterday , and that was the difference or not as between Selby district and Hambledon district , er M Mr Jewitt 's made reference earlier to his opposition to the new settlement , and in doing so he he he mentioned the settlement pattern in Hambledon district , he 'll correct me if I 'm wrong , but one of small dispersed villages , well in Selby district we do have villages of that nature , but the Northern part of of Selby district is significantly deferent to Hambledon , it 's characterized by much larger villages , and in fact the establishment of a new settlement would n't conflict with with the settlement pattern at all .
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