Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His woman 's labour was for him . |
| 2 | Jim Devine , Scottish regional officer of the Confederation of Health Service Employees , said there was no need for a pay intelligence unit to find out what the Government 's strategy is for its staff . |
| 3 | Pearson 's policy is for our newspapers to be corporately and not proprietorially managed . ’ |
| 4 | The Chinese man had wanted to do a Celtic torque in plain black , very fashionable at the time , but Jasper 's wish was for something less austere . |
| 5 | Hagen 's iconoclasm was for his own benefit ; he never saw himself as a social campaigner on behalf of his fellow professionals . |
| 6 | He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours . |
| 7 | Her tradition of looking at landscape was deeply Wordsworthian , whatever intimations she may have had that Wordsworth 's language was for his time and place only . |