Example sentences of "they be [adv] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if they are n't for my eyes , ’ he had added with a twinkle . |
| 2 | I read what it said on the notice and it said , Health and Safety at Work , it said , Obey These Signs , it said , and it said , ‘ They Are There For Your Protection . ’ |
| 3 | I think animals that are used for human entertainment definitely deserve a better deal , for example , large wi wild animals that are used in circuses , we have n't got the right , as people , to say that they 're here for our entertainment . |
| 4 | When you take them back they 're there for their inspection . |
| 5 | I might want to poke my tongue out at those new cameras as I slow down to pass them , but deep down even I know that they 're there for my protection . |
| 6 | I do n't know er why we 're not more continually erm more on the case as far as our members of parliament are concerned because remember they 're there for our benefit and front page of the Daily Mirror this morning . |
| 7 | And Clara , walking by her side and hearing these words , burst suddenly and at last into loud hysterical weeping , and as the tears flooded down her hot cheeks she knew that they were not for her father , but for the meanness and the lack of love , and for the fear that she would die in so ugly a hole , and so unloved . |
| 8 | But they did n't go in a book ; they were only for his friends to read . |