Example sentences of "what [pers pn] be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's what I 'm for , ’ he said dully ; but he was still just there , looking through the bewitchment at her . |
| 2 | That was what she was for . |
| 3 | That is what a T four bacteria is for and that 's what I am for , and I would suggest y ultimately what you are for as well , and this is why in the end erm nature will cast us aside . |
| 4 | That 's what you 're for . ’ |
| 5 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
| 6 | Paul , point Q does not apply to access by telephone which is what we 're for . |
| 7 | Sometimes you do n't even know what they 're for , because the ad is just a cartoon girl taking the dog for a walk or something . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're for fun ; that 's what they 're for . ’ |
| 9 | But they 're apt to make me feel a bit I suppose that 's what they 're for , a bit docile like , you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | I mean some of our forms , I , I , I have n't worked out what they 're for yet , an , an , and I 'm trying to some run some competitions for the best er , use of , of one particular one , it may well be in this pack . |
| 11 | what they 're for , nor is Sally supposed to eat crisps in this room , go in the other room please I do n't wan na , I do n't vacuum in here every night |
| 12 | I wonder what they 're for ? |
| 13 | I know what they 're for Chris , but I do n't know what he 's doing with them . |
| 14 | I 've got one fly , one pink thing , one ray , one of them creatures , the diggers and erm a thing , I do n't what they 're for though . |
| 15 | I just do n't know what they 're for . |
| 16 | That 's what , in many ways , what they 're for . |
| 17 | That is what they are for . |
| 18 | Think about this guy , I might have stuff on him , about flats and what they are for . |
| 19 | When Tiguary indicated the gun emplacements at intervals in the Belmont stockade and asked what they were for ( he had an idea ) , Kit waved a hand and answered , ‘ So the chickens can pop in and out . |
| 20 | I forget what they were for . |
| 21 | That 's what they were for , you moved them around . |
| 22 | They 're called sandbags , do you know what they were for ? |
| 23 | Yeah I know they were is that what they were for ? |
| 24 | Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect . |
| 25 | This naturally prompts the question what it is for one purely particular object to stand for another . |
| 26 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 27 | That it does so , so profoundly , is a vital part of what it is for . |
| 28 | It gives criticism , and critical theory , no way of knowing what it is for : no way , that is , — of arguing for one kind of production against another , or of valuing some forms over others . |
| 29 | There is no consensus about what education should be , what it is for , either in schools or places of higher education . |
| 30 | So how are we to reach any agreement now , at the end of the 1980s , on the function of education , what it is for , what needs it must meet ? |