Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] for " in BNC.

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1 Now they are for small children to celebrate occasionally .
2 Mostly they were for acts of right and grace , for example the granting of overdue wages or expenses , but a significant minority concerned complaints against royal and other officers .
3 Well they 're for the dustbin men .
4 That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ .
5 She was , in any case , not sure how they were , or how they were for her .
6 Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto .
7 Holywood could yet clinch the single Section Two promotion spot but they seem intent on staying where they are for the time being .
8 I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning .
9 They buried the bodies of those who had died on the boat , but had to leave the others where they were for grypesh could be seen prowling on the bank .
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