Example sentences of "it be for [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for him that I am accepting this honour . |
| 2 | Well , I says to him , I 'm getting sick of these calls cos you do n't know if it 's for him or him . |
| 3 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 4 | Does that mean it 's for me or Joe 's dad ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 6 | But like I said if it if you , if you do that then it 's for them and for yourself but them being up your arse is irritating if you just fucking carry on as if nothing had happened , but you 're aware of the th them doing that then I think it 's a fucking I 've that 's a psychological edge over them anyway it 's just the personalities obviously , but er |
| 7 | It 's for you and your ex-wife to work out when you see the children ( assuming they 're with her ) . |
| 8 | It is for me cos of my brain goes a bit |
| 9 | The hope is to set up groups across Scotland to discuss health issues on a local level and it is for them that the recruitment drive has been started . |
| 10 | The more production the better it is for them and better to sell the pits off . |
| 11 | The more security you have , the more of a challenge it is for them and the more of a thrill they get if they get away with it . |
| 12 | Broadly speaking , the higher a person is in the management structure , the more essential it is for him or her to be given work when it is available . |
| 13 | This one 's just as much of a prezzie for you as it is for him because it smells absolutely delicious ! |
| 14 | Well it is for us because we 've always been saying it . |
| 15 | For it is for ourselves and our own lost years that we grieve years , happy and sad , that will not come again . |
| 16 | It is for ourselves and our lost youth we weep . |
| 17 | ‘ I asked if it was for himself or his mother . |
| 18 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 19 | ‘ It was for me as well , ’ said Rory . |
| 20 | Back in those Hard Times , funerals offered us the comfort of knowing that , however tough it was for me and thee , there was always somebody who had it worse . |
| 21 | Thoughts of Edward dominated her young life : it was for him that she yearned , breathed , existed . |
| 22 | It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was . |
| 23 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 24 | ( It was for him that Dhuoda , far south in Uzès , now began her book of moral guidance . |
| 25 | It was for him that St Bernard wrote his famous tract on papal power . |
| 26 | It was for them that Paul Rotha spoke when he declared : ‘ The dialogue film , at its best , can only be a poor substitute for the stage . ’ |
| 27 | It was for them that the vision of a transformation in political , social and economic relationships held greatest appeal . |
| 28 | ‘ … the girls were very excited about it , because it was for them and there was an opportunity to use the equipment ’ |
| 29 | It was for something that happened about five or six years ago . |
| 30 | Perhaps just because she was Bob 's fiancée — but Tessa felt that it was for herself as well . |