Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he is satisfied that the law as he understands it is for Mrs. McLoughlin , he will feel justified in deciding in her favour , whatever the present legislature thinks and whether or not popular morality agrees . |
| 2 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 3 | He says it 's for tourists and people who 've read the novels who want to refresh their thoughts . |
| 4 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 5 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 6 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 7 | He thought it was for sex . |
| 8 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 9 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 10 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 11 | But he said it was for you and gave me the phone back to take a message . |