Example sentences of "it be for [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for him that I am accepting this honour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thoughts of Edward dominated her young life : it was for him that she yearned , breathed , existed . |
| 4 | It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( It was for him that Dhuoda , far south in Uzès , now began her book of moral guidance . |
| 7 | It was for him that St Bernard wrote his famous tract on papal power . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | It was for them that the vision of a transformation in political , social and economic relationships held greatest appeal . |
| 10 | It was for something that happened about five or six years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 12 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |