Example sentences of "be [indef pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |
| 2 | If one place could not be distinguished from another there would be nothing for me to seem to be saying in saying , ‘ Here ’ in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ . |
| 3 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 4 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
| 5 | Work hard , get in more business but there will be nothing for you at the end . |
| 6 | The management committee will meet and it will divide the money into two and give each one however much the management committee feels that it should have and that management committee need not meet again for twelve months because there will be nothing for it to do . |
| 7 | It was more likely to be someone for whom they had no personal feeling . |
| 8 | The PLAYER stands with huge , terrible eyes , clutches at the wound as the blade withdraws : he makes small weeping sounds and falls to his knees , and then right down : While he is dying , GUIL , nervous , high , almost hysterical , wheels on the TRAGEDIANS ) If we have a destiny , then so had he — and if this is ours , then that was his — and if there are no explanation for us , then let there be none for him ( The TRAGEDIANS watch the PLAYER die : they watch with some interest . |
| 9 | The desire to be everything for somebody , the yearning for ultimate closeness , reached its lunatic peak in the sublime schizophrenia of ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ ; ‘ if I was your one and only friend would U run to me if somebody hurt U even if that somebody was me ? ’ |
| 10 | He could smell fish cooking and wondered if it was Faustina 's coley , then realised that in view of the conversation about the finest minced veal it was more likely to be something for themselves . |
| 11 | Will there be something for everybody , for people of all ages , in the European arts festival ? |
| 12 | The aim is that there should be something for everybody in all parts of the country and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons . ’ |
| 13 | It must be something for her to change |
| 14 | There has to be something for them to think about . |
| 15 | There promises to be something for everyone and you never know — you may discover a hidden talent ! |
| 16 | With guests including Opera Restor 'd , Musica Antiqua of London and the American ensemble The Musicians of Swanne Alley running alongside events for children , illustrated lectures , walks , talks and afternoon tea concerts , there will be something for you once again at the 1992 Festival . |
| 17 | With lunchtime and evening concerts , afternoon lectures and associated walks — there will certainly be something for you in this year 's York Early Music Festival . |
| 18 | There has to be one for you , even if your idea of what is plausible may be more , or less , cautious than mine ! |
| 19 | ‘ There wo n't be anything for him to eat if she does n't write . ’ |
| 20 | And being someone for whom an hour on Møn passed more slowly than two weeks elsewhere , she welcomed a distraction ; she would plan that part of the garden herself . |
| 21 | Auxilliary nurses do not go on any courses so there were none for him to take . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's nothing for them to smile about , ’ I said , quite shocked at their callousness . |
| 23 | Well there 's nothing for them |
| 24 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 25 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 26 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 27 | If you do n't get it , there 's nothing for me to add . |
| 28 | There 's nothing for me here , she told herself . |
| 29 | ‘ I think it is very important to encourage younger women to see that it is possible to combine a career with having a family , that you do n't miss out on your children — my son wakes up every Saturday so excited that it 's the weekend , not because he does n't have a lovely time during the week , but because there 's nothing for him quite like his parents . ’ |
| 30 | There 's nothing for him to do , is there ? |