Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's doing no harm here , and I 'm company for her . ’ |
| 2 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 3 | ‘ What will you be doing for her ? ’ |
| 4 | She was larger than life , she had seen the world , she was game for anything , she was jolly and vibrant , spoke her mind ; all in all , she was fun to be with . |
| 5 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 6 | ‘ If he had any idea of what she was doing for us , MoD does n't want it spread around . |
| 7 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 8 | They are singers for whom singing and rehearsal are constant duties that are not always ( to say the least ) touched by concerns of high art . |
| 9 | It is not therefore surprising that he becomes unable to make love satisfactorily to the women he chooses since they are surrogates for his mother . |
| 10 | And they are gluttons for what currently seems to be a much scarcer resource : water . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're ferns for my Nature collection , look you . |
| 12 | No there 's they were , they were called but they were agents for their own ships . |
| 13 | They were murder for him , I could tell . ’ |
| 14 | Not knowing exactly WHEN Brian died , HOW much he suffered and WHO killed him is torture for her . |
| 15 | Could it be wedding-bells for you soon ? ’ |
| 16 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 17 | I thought it was Ben yesterday afternoon I dropped Lynsey 's thing in with Ben down there and it 's Jack , I like John , I like to speak to John , so I said John I think it 's Tommy for you , but then |
| 18 | And it 's curtains for you and me . |
| 19 | If those Labour voters work out that ‘ culture of co-operation ’ means they ought to vote tactically for the Liberal Democrats — and they do seem to have worked it out at Newbury last week — it 's curtains for yours truly . ’ |
| 20 | It 's money for nothing and danger-free as long as you keep shut . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah , because it 's money for you to spend |
| 22 | We will return to Royston for a while but then it 's Scotland for me and France for you . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's Bacton for you , sir . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's Davey for you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Course , it 's crap for actors , but it 's experience for you . ’ |
| 26 | Of course then it 's shame for them . |
| 27 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's time for me to go . |
| 29 | The 26-year-old is guarded about his physical and mental fatigue , but he says pointedly : ‘ It 's time for me to relax . ’ |
| 30 | I 've got to go now as it 's time for me to get my new dresses fitted . |