Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] be [vb pp] for the " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce .
2 Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place .
3 He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize .
4 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption .
5 I told them you were made for the part . ’
6 Secondly , a covenant simply to pay a sum of money , whether by way of insurance premium , compensation or damages , is a covenant capable of touching and concerning the land provided that the existence of the covenant , and the right to payment thereunder , affects the value of the land in whomsoever it is vested for the time being …
7 I ca n't recall what I was paid for the film .
8 I think Wilko is the best we could have possibly gotten in a manager and people ( including me unto recently when I was put right ) are ready to forget what he 's done for the club .
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