Example sentences of "be for [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 2 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 3 | If it had n't been for Kurt I would have done . |
| 4 | After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’ |
| 5 | said it 'd be for April you see |
| 6 | He said I had probably done all I could ( little did he know ) , but that no one was omnipotent and I should not try to be for Jean-Claude what Maman had been — and still was , to some extent . |
| 7 | It might be for Wisbech one , they 've gone to , cos erm , I mean they 've got two at Lynn , so it must be Wisbech |
| 8 | This is how it was for Regina who from 1942 , when she was eighteen , suffered numerous breakdowns . |