Example sentences of "think [pers pn] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says , I do n't think you 're for the beer beer . |
| 2 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 3 | Of course we thought we were for it . |
| 4 | ‘ It was only a joke but the school secretary , who had a heart condition , thought they were for real and nearly died , ’ says Betty Weller . |
| 5 | I did n't think you could get grants for your hobby ; I thought they were for businesses and things like that . |
| 6 | I thought they were for sore throats and things Gary ? |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 8 | I thought it was for purely recreational use |
| 9 | They thought it was for real , and panicked . |
| 10 | He thought it was for sex . |
| 11 | But when he got the job in the stocking factory he seriously thought it was for life . |
| 12 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 13 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 14 | I thought it was for more than we are after selling him for . |
| 15 | I thought it was for m , Tuesday ! |
| 16 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ What d' you think it 's for ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think it 's for you , sir , ’ said the postman . |
| 19 | I do n't think it 's for me . |
| 20 | I do n't think it 's for you just now Charlotte . |
| 21 | I do n't think it is for me . |
| 22 | And what do you think it was for me ? |
| 23 | Oh I see ja , what did you think it was for ? |
| 24 | Yes , I think they 're for myself , . |
| 25 | ‘ If you think it 's for the best , Daddy . ’ |
| 26 | I think it 's for taking stuff to the factory and that . |
| 27 | The head said it was important to think about ‘ whatever is best ’ for Balbinder , and went back to what the school catered for — ‘ people think it 's for mentally handicapped ’ . |
| 28 | Well , I think it 's for the best , Kate . |
| 29 | ‘ I think it 's for the best , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it 's for your shepherd . ’ |