Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I mean , if the police stop you on the motorway , you know you 're for it , whether you 've done anything or not . |
| 9 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |
| 10 | Shapira 's explanation is that Zoila had reached what was for her a satisfactory level of interaction and was not motivated to progress . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 13 | Does that mean it 's for me or Joe 's dad ? ’ |
| 14 | Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I knew it was for me to approach the Colonel again , rather than vice versa . |
| 17 | As soon as I saw it , I knew it was for you . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I do n't think it 's for me . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think it 's for you , sir , ’ said the postman . |
| 22 | I do n't think it 's for you just now Charlotte . |
| 23 | I do n't think it is for me . |
| 24 | And what do you think it was for me ? |
| 25 | I think it is for you purely to decide , that this application does not affect the house . |
| 26 | I think it was for you . |
| 27 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 28 | She took the call and said it was for me . |
| 29 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 30 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |