Example sentences of "he [modal v] [be] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who constantly criticises may be trying to change you into the person he wants you to be , when he should be loving you for the person you are . |
| 2 | She did not know it , but pallor had conferred an almost grave beauty on her , so that Havvie Blaine , arriving on the minute , thought , not for the first time , that he might be selling himself for dollars , but that he was getting more than dollars in return . |
| 3 | But then he knew he would n't , because he would be doing it for just that reason even if he really preferred tea with lemon . |
| 4 | He would not have reckoned on their single liaison having such an outcome , and he would be blaming her for failing to have taken precautions . |
| 5 | Now , though , comes the word that Confederacy is being developed by Ivan Reitman — coming up soon in Ghostbusters II , which he also wrote — and if all goes well , he will be directing it for 20th Century Fox . |