Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle . |
| 2 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 3 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 4 | Governors will , therefore , depend heavily upon the guidance and information which can be provided for them within the school . |
| 5 | Next morning in the market , shopping for a picnic , our struggles with the phrasebook brought an English-speaking Thai to our rescue , explaining that the quail eggs we had bought were raw , but could be cooked for us in the soup cauldron wherever we took breakfast . |
| 6 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 7 | I 'll never be mistaken for him in the street then . |
| 8 | His recipes could never be mistaken for anything but the recipes of an educated Frenchman . |
| 9 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 10 | He was so modest , reticent , and reserved that his paper on his voyage of 1880 , given at the Royal Geographical Society , had to be read for him by the secretary . |