Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reason for wanting to go , he said , was because ‘ I had heard it was for charity and I knew Elton John . |
| 2 | They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ? |
| 3 | Shapira 's explanation is that Zoila had reached what was for her a satisfactory level of interaction and was not motivated to progress . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway . |