Example sentences of "be [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd be me for it , me and Mr Paviour and his lordship — ah , and in that order ! |
| 2 | And , her tone suddenly changing completely , ‘ Would it really hurt you so much to pretend to be me for an hour ? ’ she asked mournfully . |
| 3 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 4 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 5 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
| 6 | If one place could not be distinguished from another there would be nothing for me to seem to be saying in saying , ‘ Here ’ in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ . |
| 7 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |
| 8 | Work hard , get in more business but there will be nothing for you at the end . |
| 9 | And what does say about that ? says that we will keep the level of charges down in the now privately owned companies providing public utilities so there 'll be nothing for dividends . |
| 10 | ‘ There 'll be nothing for hours . |
| 11 | The management committee will meet and it will divide the money into two and give each one however much the management committee feels that it should have and that management committee need not meet again for twelve months because there will be nothing for it to do . |
| 12 | It was a big expensive car , must be someone for one of the neighbours . |
| 13 | It was more likely to be someone for whom they had no personal feeling . |
| 14 | It 's totally street legal , sounds as good as any cable and it could be yours for the price of a phone call . |
| 15 | The Fat Slags can be yours for £10m , says editor Chris Donald . |
| 16 | The disposal programme comprises assets of over £500m and the Ritz in Piccadilly , Mecca for the internationally wealthy , could be yours for £100 m . |
| 17 | IT looks more like an obelisk than a hotel , but if you 're looking for the unusual and eccentric , the 218-ft Sway Tower piercing the New Forest skyline could be yours for £1million . |
| 18 | Upon arrival at Aberdeen Airport your COMPLIMENTARY CAR will be awaiting you … and will be yours for the entire weekend to use as you please . |
| 19 | They can all be yours for only £1.99 , plus £1.99 towards postage and packing , as your introduction to this invaluable children 's book club . |
| 20 | When Saturday Comes is Britain 's leading alternative football magazine , and its next 12 humorous , nostalgic , yet incisive monthly issues can be yours for the almost insignificant fee of £11 ( including postage ) . |
| 21 | A Cyberman could be yours for just £1,000 . |
| 22 | The nameplate Preston Guild which can be yours for the highest bid . |
| 23 | Unix International is circulating a monstrously hefty tome cataloguing the 5,500-odd software applications under Unix SVR4 , a compilation of products and services from over 2,400 companies : The Product Catalogue can be yours for $15 plus shipping and handling . |
| 24 | I 'd suggest to him that at least the place should be yours for life ; let the young man have it on your death . |
| 25 | This shall be yours for life and for the lives of any children you may happen to have . |
| 26 | A Jaguar of the same vintage is down to just £7,000 , and an H-registration Ford Scorpio 2.0i automatic which currently costs £18,000 could be yours for a mere £6,850. depreciation of more than £5,000 a year , or £100 per week . |
| 27 | This bronze bust of Maxwell can be yours for an expected five hundred pounds . |
| 28 | The naming of a rose can be yours for a price . |
| 29 | If you 're keen to invest in property and you 're particularly flush at the moment , you 'll be interested to know that all this could be yours for thirty thousand pounds . |
| 30 | And so that he might ensure that our island would be his for all time , he instructed his hordes to slaughter all the children on Møn . |