Example sentences of "we be [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It would be naive and stupid to think we have a walkover just because we are favourites for the First Division title .
2 Nobody knows who we , who we are man for Christ sake .
3 We 're typists for a firm of account-ants in Charing Cross . ’
4 After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet .
5 The wind freshened from astern off Rudha Reidh and we just managed to beat a south westerly gale into Loch Ewe where we were weatherbound for the next two days .
6 Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade .
7 But however that 's the way things went and er we were distributors for the Morris for Selkirkshire and Peebleshire .
8 ‘ People thought we were idiots for a long time , ’ remembers Kelly .
9 Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them .
10 I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly .
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