Example sentences of "[prep] be [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Did n't used to really , ooh it must of been murder for him when you think !
2 It was Ana who came forward as Maggie came into the room , and clearly she did not let her blindness get in the way of being hostess for her brother .
3 There seemed to be space for everyone .
4 For a word to have a meaning is for there to be rules for its use : rules in virtue of which the application of the word can count as correct in some cases and incorrect in others .
5 I had never taught in a classroom before but , although daunting at first , it turned out to be education for me as well as the students .
6 And to be company for him in his old age among this sorority of Slavonic women he seemed to be siring .
7 Now how how you work it on your scheme or whatever scheme comes up , it just seems to me that if you are going to have self-regulatory body , there 's got to be responsibility for it and how you impose that responsibility , could I 'm sure be in all sorts of different ways .
8 She replied ‘ simply : ‘ One day reading the Bible I was struck by the simple and loving demands of Jesus on his disciples and the intolerable demands of those who claimed to be Christ for me .
9 Old George used to be an old he was always keen to be executor for anybody you know .
10 Now there are a lot of supporters , er are they going to be er , is there going to be room for everybody ?
11 It used to be dinner for us at night , you see , cos we did n't have time for stopping like at lunchtime .
12 Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing !
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