Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 2 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 4 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 5 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 6 | Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations . |
| 7 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 8 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 9 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 10 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 11 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |
| 12 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |
| 13 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 14 | I mean , if the police stop you on the motorway , you know you 're for it , whether you 've done anything or not . |
| 15 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |
| 16 | Shapira 's explanation is that Zoila had reached what was for her a satisfactory level of interaction and was not motivated to progress . |
| 17 | But we believe we know what at this moment the country wants , and we believe it is for us in our strength to do what no other party can do at this moment and to say that we at any rate stand for peace … |
| 18 | The only way to solve it is for something to be done to those four officers , something done to the Korean lady who shot the girl , something done to the Compton policeman who killed those two Samoan brothers … |
| 19 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 20 | When I buy them from the chemist , I pretend they 're for someone else . |
| 21 | Does that mean it 's for me or Joe 's dad ? ’ |
| 22 | Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him . |
| 23 | Then not long after , we were both walking under some scaffolding — she was already under it and out of view — when a workman whistled , so I knew it was for me , not her . |
| 24 | I knew it was for me to approach the Colonel again , rather than vice versa . |
| 25 | As soon as I saw it , I knew it was for you . ’ |
| 26 | They were her protectors , older , stronger , more clever and brave , and yet they had assumed it was for her to say what they were to do . |
| 27 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 28 | I do n't think it 's for me . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't think it 's for you , sir , ’ said the postman . |
| 30 | I do n't think it 's for you just now Charlotte . |