Example sentences of "who [verb] be for " in BNC.

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1 Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’
2 We need to know who discourse is for , often in detail .
3 These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain .
4 It was very difficult to remember who had been for what at which particular period .
5 At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two .
6 Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics .
7 He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer .
8 Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous !
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