Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do we know which is for tea and which is n't ? |
| 2 | And never once has he been for Instruction . ’ |
| 3 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 4 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 5 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 6 | We asked men how well equipped they are for sex , both physically and mentally . |
| 7 | There was no chimney attached to it ; so she guessed it was for paraffin oil . |
| 8 | Stirring potential buyers to get out and see what is for sale is a key element of successful salesmanship . |
| 9 | Oh , well , come on ; let's go down and see what 's for dinner . |
| 10 | Except that is was for money , I know it was for money but er I do n't know the exact er Because I think I think in that year , we got what we called the Samuel award , that were three shillings a day , basic , you see ? |
| 11 | He thought it was for sex . |
| 12 | But when he got the job in the stocking factory he seriously thought it was for life . |
| 13 | His reason for wanting to go , he said , was because ‘ I had heard it was for charity and I knew Elton John . |
| 14 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 15 | Wonder what 's for breakfast this morning . |
| 16 | She did everything loudly : loud sneeze , loud blowing of the nose , loud banging of doors when she was in a temper ; she would march ( she always marched ) into the kitchen , clattering all the saucepan lids to see what was for supper , saying ‘ brrr ’ and turning up the heater , turning on the telly , tapping her foot to the music . |
| 17 | Would you mind if I asked what 's for supper , only I 'm starvin' . ’ |
| 18 | And then sh Elizabeth had come over by then and I said it 's it 's in her bag , so we had a look at it and her friend said it 's for angina , it always makes her ill ! |
| 19 | I worked in the factory and said it was for fun ; but it was n't — I did it because I needed to . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They said it was for lack of printing plates , ’ said Mohammed Salekh , the party leader , who has to submit articles to the authorities for approval . |
| 21 | A high-ranking Saudi , carrying a gun for the first time in his life , said it was for use not against Iraqis but against ‘ certain other nationalities ’ . |
| 22 | and anyway she rang David up and she said , she did n't say it were for Bet but she said she wanted another two hundred pounds |
| 23 | Sale procedure and contacts — identify what is for sale ! |