Example sentences of "be for [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 2 | Youth , when death has no reality ( she does n't mean fear of death , children can have that ) , and our actions and pleasures are for their own sake , for what they are now and new . |
| 3 | In the first place he draws our attention to the fact that not all our desires are for our own future states of affairs , desires can be impersonal . |
| 4 | They may seem inconvenient , but they are for your own safety . |
| 5 | A writer should suffer and all that — it would be for her own good in the long run . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm tired of being manoeuvred into painful and irritating situations that are supposed to be for my own good . |
| 7 | ‘ Well ’ — he pursed his lips — ‘ I sometimes think you should be for your own good . |
| 8 | Officials said yesterday that Robert Lock , 29 , from Cambridge , had been on remand after a court hearing last week when police detected the heroin , believed to be for his own use . |
| 9 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
| 10 | And I think I believed , or tried to believe , him when he repeatedly told me that the restrictions he placed upon me were for my own good . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody wants to exterminate them but it 's for their own good . |
| 12 | fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit |
| 13 | It 's for your own benefit because |
| 14 | It 's for your own sake , because the o if the oil gets underneath the skin it can irritate your skin . |
| 15 | It 's for your own good , Nicholson . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's for your own good , Harold ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's for his own good , ’ Dann put in . |
| 18 | It 's for my own peace of mind . ’ |
| 19 | I 'll put a I 'll put a circle round the no and there that 's for my own benefit . |
| 20 | Gushing statements to the young person about how this is for their own good , or ‘ this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you ’ ( attitudes which are still prevalent ) are quite unhelpful , virtually damaging in fact . |
| 21 | ‘ This is for her own safety , as much as anything else . |
| 22 | His respect for other faiths is as strong as it is for his own faith . |
| 23 | The more time and energy you give to developing residencies in hospitals and working with other people the less time there is for your own work . |
| 24 | You should be aware of your own weaknesses if you have done a thorough selfassessment but the information is for your own eyes only . |
| 25 | They said it was for her own protection and they felt she might not surrender to the court . |
| 26 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 27 | But it would spoil the illusion if all the merrymakers were to think that their spending bonanza was for their own satisfaction . |
| 28 | Hagen 's iconoclasm was for his own benefit ; he never saw himself as a social campaigner on behalf of his fellow professionals . |
| 29 | His only concern was for his own men and for the standards and traditions he expected them to live up to . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you were going to tell me at least that it was for my own good . |