Example sentences of "be [verb] for [indef pn] [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 | I would be looking for someone like the Beresfords ' youngest daughter — innocence , childlike freshness and beauty . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 6 | His recipes could never be mistaken for anything but the recipes of an educated Frenchman . |